Pratt, Adrian Z. House
73 Mount Prospect St
1890
Architectural Style
Italianate
Significance
Architecture
Use Type
Single Family Dwelling House
Neighborhood
Bridgewater Town Center
Massachusetts Historical Commission Report
Architectural Significance
This house provides further evidence that the Italianate vernacular style persisted in Bridgewater well into the late 19th c., being more widely used than more contemporary 1880s and 1890s styles—e.g. Queen Anne, Colonial Revival. This house possesses and irregular plan, encircling verandah with turned posts and curvilinear brackets, cornice headed windows and gables with return eaves.
Historical Significance
This house represents a relatively late addition to Mt. Prospect Street's collection of c. 1870s-1890s houses. Its lot appears as vacant on the 1887 Birdseye view map. By the early 1890s, Adrian Z. Pratt, auctioneer and high school janitor lived here. During the 1880s he is listed as a farmer residing at Summer near Laurel.