Maple Street 59.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 23A-60 Easthampton NTH.179 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 59 Maple Street Historic Name:
William Latham House Uses: Present: 10-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1890 Source: atlas of 1895 Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: granite, brownstone, wood, terra cotta Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage Barn Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good/fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.411 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house with two large blue spruce trees in its front yard, one at each side of a
central walk.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [59 MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.179 ___ 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, the only granite house in Florence, is a two-and-a-half story, Queen Anne style house under
a hipped roof. It has on its west façade a two-and-a-half story polygonal bay. There is a front-gabled dormer on the roof of the main block of the house. It has a sunburst pattern in
its gable field. On the roof as well are two tall granite chimneys and at terra cotta cresting at its ridges. The bay window has a small hipped roof dormer on its roof. From the angle
between the bay window and the main block of the house, across the west façade and around to the south elevation is a porch with a rounded corner. It has turned Queen Anne style posts
and a turned baluster railing. Above the stairs to the porch is a pediment. The main block is three bays wide. An entry with a leaded glass transom is adjacent to a pair of windows with
1/1 sash. Sash in the bay window is multiple-pane Queen Anne sash. The rough-faced granite blocks of the building are regularly coursed but randomly sized. Contrasting with the granite
is brownstone trim. The building has a brownstone watertable, continuous brownstone lintels and sills at the first and second story windows, keyed window and door surrounds and brownstone
sills. This is an unusual and unique house in Northampton and may well have served as a demonstration of mason Latham’s work. 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. According to the Form B of 1976,
“Built in the early 1890s by William Latham, (this house) is located on one of the two major side streets in Florence center. Maple Street had been laid out in the late 1840s after the
dissolution of the Florence Community. Lots were sold for homesteads and the area was quickly built up. William Latham bought a lot with a frame dwelling house thereon in 1891, and built
his new residence soon thereafter. Latham is listed as mason and builder, stone quarrier and wood dealer in the local directory.” 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. Registry of Deeds Book 443-pate 494. Northampton Directory: 1892-93.