Prospect Street 345.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
April, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24A-159-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 345 Prospect Street Historic Name:
John and Melissa Boudo House Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1920 Source: Street Directories Style/Form: eclectic Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.164 acres Setting: This house is shaded by a large red maple and faces south to Childs Park.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [345 Prospect STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. ___ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space
as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics
of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is an eclectic house stylistically. It is two-and-a-half stories under a gambrel roof, which is generally an indication
of a Colonial Revival style, but the steeply-pitched cross-gable on its south façade is Tudor Revival in style. The house has a pedimented porch on posts and Colonial Revival style window
sash with a diamond-shaped center pane. Like many of its contemporary neighbors it is only two bays wide and has a picture window at the first floor level. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss
the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. ’Prospect
Heights,’ an area along Prospect Street between Hinckley (now known as Jackson) and North Elm Streets, was opened in the late 1890s for residential development. This development was
spurred by the opening of an electric railway line connecting this area to Northampton Center and to Florence Center. In 1895 the land on which this lot is on the north side of the street
was owned by Otis Maynard and had not yet been divided. By 1930 the house was in place and its occupants were John and Melissa Boudo and their three children. John and Melissa worked
together at the Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper. John was a printer and Melissa was a linotype operator. They lived here through 1942. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County
Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and
Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map
of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.