Prospect Street 69-81.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-88 Easthampton NTH.615 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 69-81 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Prospect Apartments Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Apartments Date of Construction: 1928-1930 Source: Directory & Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Tudor Revival Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: brick/limestone Roof: copper and other Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows replaced, ca. 2000.
Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.801 Setting: This apartment block faces west and is in a neighborhood of what were predominantly single-family residences but
may now be divided.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [69-81 PROSPECT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.615 ___ 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 a Tudor Revival style apartment block four stories in height under a flat roof. It is brick
with limestone window sills, surrounds and stringcourse between first and second floors. Its twelve bay length is broken up by ornamental brickwork projecting slightly from the plane
of the façade, by copper tiled roofing and copper sided oriel windows. It has two modest entrances on the west façade with shed roof hoods on braces and one on the south elevation as
well. Mock half-timbering on the hoods further elaborates the building as Tudor Revival. Whereas the 1900 apartment block at 36 Bedford Terrace is Tudor Revival as well, this apartment
block several decades later represents the style in its late form. 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 large block of 32 apartments was built in 1928-29 by Albert Gagnier
at a cost of $128,000. Mr. Gagnier was a prominent apartment builder in the larger cities of the lower valley: Springfield, Chicopee, and Holyoke.” 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.