Prospect Street 87.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-068-001 Easthampton NTH. Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 87 Prospect Street Historic Name:
Norman and Ellen Cornwell House Uses: Present: Four-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Source: street directories Style/Form: Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 2000; wing added ca. 1970 Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.211 acres Setting: This house occupies a corner lot that slopes down to the east.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [87 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-story house that is gable and wing in form. It has a slate roof and has been sided in vinyl. The front
gable section of the house has an Italianate three-sided bay window at its first story and in the angle between the gable and the wing is an entry that has been enclosed. It has a cross
gable and an added shed-roofed wing on the south elevation. There is a diamond pane stair window on the south and the wide eaves overhangs or the Italianate style but little other remaining
ornament. 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. This is the Ellen and Norman Cornwell House. The Cornwells were here as early as 1870 when Norman was a bookbinder. By 1900 he had died, and after that date
Ellen lived here with one of their several children, Edna, and neither of them worked outside the house. They were in the house through 1919 but were replaced by two families in 1930:
Arthur Roberts, a watchman at Smith College and a widow Carrie Shearn. The house had changed hands again by 1940 when Aldrich and Ann Dragon shared it with Jules and Nora Vacchelle.
Aldrich was a collector and Vacchelle was a dyer at the local hosiery factory. The history of the house’s occupation is reflective of many on Prospect Street, whereby the house held
a mixture of local craftspeople, Smith College employees and industrial workers. The closer the house was to Elm Street, the more likely the Smith College employee was to be an academician
and the original owners to be the owners of the businesses and industries. Further north, the population changed slightly. 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. Northampton Street Directories 1919-1940 U.S. Federal Censuses 1900-1930 Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City,
Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.