North Maple Street 101.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-34 Easthampton NTH.86 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 101 North Maple Street Historic
Name: Sylvester J. Bosworth House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: not visible Wall/Trim: wood shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Windows
replaced with vinyl, ca. 2005. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.399 acres Setting: This house faces west on a quiet residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [101 NORTH MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.86 ___ 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 Bosworth House is an Italianate style house relatively simple in plan and elevation. It is
two stories in height under a front-gable roof that has wide eaves that are thinly boxed. The roof on the south elevation extends at the south east corner to become a shed roof over
a one-story wing once bay wide and two bays deep. The house is three bays wide and has a fine recessed recessed entry with a trabeated surround of wide pilasters whose entablature has
been obscured by the porch roof. Between the pilasters is a high transom light and the door is flanked by full-length sidelights. The porch, which appears to have been a later addition
wraps across the west façade and most of the south elevation. It has Queen Anne style turned posts on high pedestals with scroll-cut brackets at the eaves and a square baluster railing.
Now wood shingle-sided, the house would originally have been clapboard sided. 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 1867, the railroad came to Florence. A depot and freight
house were built on North Maple Street near Main Street and industry grew up nearby. Most of the land between Main Street and Bridge Road was a wooded plateau, and suitable for residential
development. By 1873, over a dozen houses had been built along the street. This house appears on the 1873 atlas and was owned by Sylvester J. Bosworth, a Florence merchant who lived
on North Main Street. Thus, this house must have been leased out originally. About 1890, Fred Readio, a carpenter, bought the property and used it as his 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. Registry of Deeds: Bk. 246-P. 151