Maple Street 81-83.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-67 Easthampton NTH.181 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 81-83 Maple Street Historic
Name: Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1900 Source: 1902 Sanborn Insurance Map Style/Form: Late Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles, clapboard Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.132 acres Setting: This is the last house on the east side of Maple Street near North Main.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [81-83MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.181 ___ 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 story, front-gabled house that is Queen Anne in style. It is three bays
wide with a center entry flanked by two large, fixed-light windows. A full-width porch crosses the west façade. It is supported on heavy turned posts and has elaborate brackets at the
eaves in an arrow pattern. Its railing has square balusters. The porch is stacked with a single-bay wide second story porch that has solid railings, shortened posts and brackets with
scrolled heart pattern. It leads to a center door at each side of which is a paired window with 1/1 sash. Above the second story porch in the gable field is a paired window with 16/16
sash in each of its windows. The building is three bays deep and has a shed roof ell on the rear with its own entry on the south elevation reached by a small porch on posts. The siding
of the house is pure Queen Anne. It is clapboard-sided on the first and second stories with belt courses dividing the stories. In the gable field are patterned shingles, diamond above
scalloped, followed by a row of vertical siding. The shingles, beltcourses and vertical siding were often used in the Stick Style, which preceded the Queen Anne, so this house does give
differing evidence of its construction date. 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 1980: “This large house first appears on the 1895 Atlas as part of the Florence Hotel property. By the
early 1920’s, it had become a double residence.” It is possible that what was recorded in 1980 is correct, but a comparison between the 1895 atlas and the 1902 Sanborn Insurance map
shows that the façade of this house was parallel to the street and the earlier building was not. More likely, this was a new building ca. 1902 purpose-built as a two-family. The style
of the house with its stacked porch and two first floor large fixed light windows – “picture windows” – lend weight to the later date of the house. 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.