234 Elm Street
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FORM B − BUILDING
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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
31A-73 Easthampton NTH.481
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 234 Elm Street
Historic Name: Henry Maynard House
Uses: Present: Apartments
Original: Single-family House
Date of Construction: 1884
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Carriage barn
Major Alterations (with dates):
Ell added, ca. 1900
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.228 acres
Setting: This house is north-facing in a residential section
of Northampton’s main thoroughfare.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [234 ELM STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.481
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Maynard House is a large, two-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof, a two-story ell on the south and wings on both
the east and west elevations. Now vinyl-sided it has lost many of its distinctive stylistic features, but it has retained an extensive
porch that wraps across the north façade around the west elevation where it stops at the west wing. The porch is stacked with
second floor sections on the north and on the west, which is rather unusual as most stacked porches have one section only at
the second floor level. The porch at both stories is supported on Doric columns suggesting that the house may originally have
been Colonial Revival in style. There is an arched window in the north gable and a diamond-shaped window in the east wing’s
gable field. Window sash is largely 2/2.
There is a carriage barn remaining on the south side of the house.
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 1977: “Maynard was a considerable property owner in the Elm Street Area”
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: 1793/90, 1422/339, 1347/51, 805/353, 714/418, 413/182, 391/413, 378/190