North Main Street 9.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 17C-225 Easthampton NTH.114 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 9 North Main Street Historic
Name: George W. Maine House Uses: Present: Three-family residence, commercial Original: Single-family residence, commercial Date of Construction: ca. 1880 Source: Atlases Style/Form:
Italianate Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick, concrete Wall/Trim: clapboards, artificial siding, brick Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations
(with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.133 acres Setting: Set at the edge of Florence’s commercial center, this building faces south and is on a tree-shaded
lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [9 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.114 ___ 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 Maine House is an unusual example of a late 19th century, purpose-built commercial/residential
building. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof that is slate covered. The house has a high basement that provides for a row of display windows on its south
façade beneath a full-width porch. There is a shallow, cross-gabled wing on the west, a one-story, shed-roofed store addition at the southeast corner of the building that extends beyond
the plane of the façade to the sidewalk, and a series of ells on the north that include more recent garage additions along with an original north ell of two-and-a-half stories. The main
block of the house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep. It has wide, thinly-boxed eaves and a center chimney. A porch crosses the south façade and wraps around to
the west elevation, stopping at the wing. The high porch is supported on braces at the basement level and its roof is supported on Italianate chamfered posts on pedestals and has solid
brackets at the eaves in a scroll-cut pattern. Windows of the first story are nearly three-quarter length in the Italianate fashion and there is a triple, round-arched window composition
in the gable field. The southeast store is brick with clapboards added to the west elevation. It has a traditional storefront with display windows flanking a recessed center entry. 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 two and a half story house with store in the basement was probably built for George Maine in the early 1880’s. According to the 1875 directory,
Mr. Maine operated a meat market on Meadow Street in Florence, and he probably moved his business here when the structure was built. By the early 1870’s, the intersection of Main/North
Main Street and Maple/North Maple Street in Florence had become center of commercial activity. There were a couple of brick blocks, but mostly businesses were operated from small frame
buildings or attachments to residences.” 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.