Elm Street 234.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31A-73 Easthampton NTH.481 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 234 Elm Street Historic Name: Henry
Maynard House Uses: Present: Apartments Original: Single-family House Date of Construction: 1884 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Ell added, ca. 1900 Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.228 acres Setting: This house is north-facing in a residential section of Northampton’s main thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [234 ELM STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.481 ___ 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 Maynard House is a large, two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof, a two-story ell
on the south and wings on both the east and west elevations. Now vinyl-sided it has lost many of its distinctive stylistic features, but it has retained an extensive porch that wraps
across the north façade around the west elevation where it stops at the west wing. The porch is stacked with second floor sections on the north and on the west, which is rather unusual
as most stacked porches have one section only at the second floor level. The porch at both stories is supported on Doric columns suggesting that the house may originally have been Colonial
Revival in style. There is an arched window in the north gable and a diamond-shaped window in the east wing’s gable field. Window sash is largely 2/2. There is a carriage barn remaining
on the south side of the house. 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 1977: “Maynard was a considerable property owner in the Elm Street Area” 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 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. Registry of Deeds: 1793/90, 1422/339, 1347/51, 805/353, 714/418, 413/182, 391/413, 378/190