North Maple Street 107.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-281 Easthampton NTH.136 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 107 North Maple Street Historic
Name: Mrs. Hubbard B. Davis House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form:
Eclectic Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.208 acres Setting: This house faces west on a a residential street of 19th c. homes.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [107 NORTH MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.136 ___ 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 Mrs. Hubbard Davis House is stylistically eclectic having been updated several times after
its construction date. It is a two-and-a-half story house with a front-gabled roof of slate and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the east. The main block of the house is Italianate
in style. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep for a rectangular plan. Windows in the main block have 2/2 sash and Italianate hooded lintels. There is a second
story porch on the east elevation that is supported on Italianate style posts with a brace at the eaves. Around 1900 the house was altered with several Queen Anne style features. Its
front gable field was shingled while the remainder of the house was clapboard sided and two Queen Anne window sashes were inserted in existing openings. In the gable field at the attic
level on the west façade is the fixed-light sash surrounded by small panes that typifies the Queen Anne window and on the south elevation the stair window received a lozenge-shaped,
fixed-light sash that was often used ca. 1900. The south elevation also has an angled bay window beneath a Queen Anne style oriel window. Crossing the west façade is a Colonial Revival
style porch that would have been added ca. 1910. It has a low-pitched hipped roof and is supported on Doric columns. It has railings with square balusters. 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 house first appears on the 1873 atlas as property of Mrs. H.B. Davis. The 1875 directory lists Hubbard Davis, a laborer on Maple Street. By 1884, the property was
owned by Jacob Whitmarsh, a carpenter. Mr. Whitmarsh may have remodeled the earlier house, as some of the detailing does not appear to have been done in the early 1870’s.” 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