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Prospect Street 57.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): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-129 Easthampton NTH.626 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 57 Prospect Street Historic Name: Henry A. Kimball House Uses: Present: Three-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1873-1884 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Colonial Revival with Gothic Revival porch Architect/Builder: William F. Pratt and son, architects Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.214 acres Setting: This house occupies a tree-shaded lot that slopes down to the east. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.626 _x__ 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. The Kimball House is a Colonial Revival style, two-and-a-half story house under a truncated hipped roof. It has a shallow wing on the north and a three-sided bay on the south but is basically a square plan house in the simplified Colonial Revival fashion. The eaves are relatively wide and rest on a row of solid brackets that are meant to be an interpretation of modillion blocks but are elaborated. The rise from a broad entablature. The shingled house is three bays wide and its center bay is occupied by a three-story Gothic Revival style porch. Architect William F. Pratt was unconventional in his interpretation and mixed use of styles, and this house is a good example of his imaginative approach to architecture. The porch rests on chamfered posts at first and second floors and at the third floor thick posts support a Gothic trefoil arch. Typical of Pratt the entry to the third floor porch is a Colonial Revival style Palladian window composition turned into a door and sidelights. 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. From Form B of 1980: “This house was built in the early 1880’s for Henry Kimball, co-owner of the Kimball and Cary Company, dealers in coal and wood. Mr. Kimball also served two terms as mayor of Northampton during the mid 1890’s. The house is from designs of William F. Pratt and son. William F. Pratt was Northampton’s most prominent architect of the mid 19th century. He was the son of Thomas Pratt, a master carpenter, and began his own business in 1835. He is responsible for the majority of Northampton’s fine Victorian commercial blocks, and designed many local residences. In 1882, William F. Pratt Jr. joined the firm, which continued until the early 1890’s. At that time, the business was sold out. The son continued as an architect, but never had the impact his father did on the local environment.” 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. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [57 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.626 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival, and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.