North Maple Street 97.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-033-001 Easthampton NTH.85 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 97 North Maple Street
Historic Name: Uses: Present: Single-family house Original: Single-family house Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: asbestos Roof: asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added, ca. 1950 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes
| | Date Acreage: 0.525 acres Setting: This house is set on the east side of North Maple Street on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [97 North Maple Street] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.85 ___ 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 the only house of its plan and elevation on North Maple Street. It is a gable-and-wing
form, Queen Anne style house that is two stories in height. It sits on high brick foundations and has broad eaves that are thinly boxed. Its entry is in the angle between the gable and
the wing behind a round porch that is supported by turned posts and has turned braces at its eaves. The door is centered at the angle and above it is a through-eaves, front-gabled dormer.
The two sections of the house are each one bay wide and have chimneys on their roof ridges. The wing has on its south elevation an angled bay window to add volume to the interior. There
is an open porch on the east elevation of the wing. A larger version of this house’s plan and elevation is the Seth Hunt House at 115 Bridge Street. 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
the Form B of 1980, “This house first appears on the 1895 atlas as the residence of Charles R. Hood, a foreman at the Norwood Engineering Company, which was also located on North Maple
Street.” 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.