Massasoit Street 69.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 24C-95 Easthampton NTH.298 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 69 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Henry G. Maynard House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Stick Style Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved:
no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.42 acres Setting: This house faces west on a quiet residential street. It occupies one of the largest lots on this section of Massasoit Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [69MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.298 ___ 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 Henry Maynard House has been preserved with its carriage barn in a fine state of preservation.
It is a two-and-a-half story Stick Style house with a front-gable roof and a cross-gable wing on the north. Extending the house to the east is a two-story porch that rests on a brace
at the southeast corner. The house is a simple three bays wide and has a shed roof porch across its west façade. The porch is supported on chamfered posts and has an intricate jigsaw-cut
frieze. The porch railings are in a Chippendale pattern topped by vertical balusters. As a Stick Style house, the exterior is clapboard and divided in the first and second stories by
a beltcourse above the skirt board and by additional beltcourses setting off a band of shingles between first and second stories and a band of vertical matchboard between the second
story and attic level. Shingles also ornament the gable field. The eaves-front carriage barn is on the east 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 1980: “In 1869,
Henry Maynard filed a subdivision plan for Massasoit Street. Most of the development along the street, however, took place between the mid 1880’s and mid 1890’s. This lot was originally
set aside for an extension of Arlington Street, but this never came about and around 1890, the present house and carriage house were built for Mr. Maynard’s own residence.” 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.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [69MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.298 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Maynard House and Carriage Barn would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s
primary corridor, Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development
from a few gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several
hundred years to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the
Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Maynard House is a good example of the
Stick Style and together with its Carriage Barn would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and
materials.