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4 Bancroft Road Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: PVPC Date (month / year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-167-001 Easthampton NTH.313 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 4 Bancroft Road Historic Name: Henry G. Maynard House Uses: Present: two-family residence Original: single-family residence Date of Construction: ca. 1894 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboard, shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Tool shed Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.16 acres Setting: This south-facing house occupies a corner lot at the foot of a hill in Northampton center. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [4 BANCROFT ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.313 __x_ 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 a Queen Anne style house two-and-a-half stories in height beneath a side-gable roof with a large transverse gable bay on its façade. One half of the side-gable roof extends on the south nearly to first floor level, a stylistic feature that originated in the Shingle Style and was used occasionally during the Queen Anne stylistic period. Another example of this roof arrangement in Northampton is the house at 29 Arlington Street. The house has clapboards on the first and second stories separated by a band of wave-cut wood shingles. In the field of the transverse gable bay are sawtooth shingles. The first floor corners of the transverse gable bay are chamfered and their second story overhangs are ornamented with scroll-cut trim. The house has fairly wide eaves and at the attic level of the transverse gable bay is a pair of windows whose lintel acts as a truss from one side of the eaves to the other in a highly unusual fashion. One of the finest features of the house is the Queen Anne style rounded porch that wraps from the south elevation to the east and is supported on turned posts. The porch railing balusters are scroll-cut in an ornamental urn pattern. There are scroll cut brackets at its eaves. This is a fine example of the Queen Anne style. 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: “There has been a house on this site since the early 1850s. At that time Franklin Street was a short lane leading to a large farm house (now identified as 38 Franklin Street) and Bancroft Road was a curving lane leading to the top of Round Hill. It appears that the farm was originally connected with the Round Hill School for Boys begun in the early 1820s. From 1856 until 1894 Simeon Birge sold the property to Henry Maynard. Mr. Maynard had been very instrumental in opening up Massasoit and Franklin Streets for development. It appears that the old house was taken down and the present house built at the time of Mr. Maynard’s purchase. The new house appears on the 1895 atlas, and is owned by Mr. Maynard, who probably leased it out. “ 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. Northampton Directories: 1885-86 and 1895-96. Registry of Deeds. Book 466, page 387; Book 165, page 529; Book 149, page 311. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [4 BANCROFT ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.313 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. This house 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 it is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.