Prospect Street 85.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 31B-069-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 85 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Dragon House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: pre-1900 Source: Street Directories; 1900 census Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: aluminum Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added and windows replaced,
cal 1990-2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.172 acres Setting: This house is set in alignment with others on the street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [85 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 a two-and-a-half Colonial Revival style house with a pyramidal hipped roof. It has a cross-gable on the south
elevation and a rear two-and-a-half story ell. The main block of the house is two bays wide and two bays deep and comes close to being a Four-Square for its simplicity. However, it has
a stacked, Colonial Revival style wrap around porch the crosses the west façade and with a round corner covers a portion of the south elevation. The porch is supported on Doric columns
linked by turned baluster railings. Above the side entry on the west façade, the porch is stacked on the second story. It is one bay wide under a pedimented roof. The house has been
sided in aluminum, which obscures detail that would convey its age and architectural merit. 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. The name Dragon was fairly common in Northampton at the turn of the
19th-20th century and among the those who had that name were Louis and Victorine Dragon, French Canadians who had emigrated in 1880 and who lived in this house in 1900 with their four
sons and five daughters. Louis supported this large family working as a barber in 1900 but by 1910 he had his own barber shop and two of his daughters, Valida and Odna, worked as milliners,
while a son worked in a hardware store. By 1919 Louis had died and his widow Victorine lived here with their daughter Odna who supported the pair as a dressmaker. The other members of
the family appear to had moved away from Northampton. Victorine and Odna stayed through 1930 but by 1940 had been replaced by two families: S.A. and Rena Christian, and J. J. and Norma
Berinstein. W. A. Christian was a professor at Smith College and Berinstein was a manager. The house was a two-family if only nominally so, as it was later to revert to one-family use.
The history of this house is typical of many of those closer to Elm Street in which the houses were built and occupied in the late 19th century to early 20th by merchants and industrialists
and were later joined or replaced by academicians from Smith College. 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. Northampton Street Directories 1919-1940 U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930 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.