108 Franklin 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, 2010
Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
24C-127 Easthampton NTH. 304
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 108 Franklin Street
Historic Name: Henry Maynard House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1873-1884
Source: Atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.211 acres
Setting: This house occupies a corner lot at the north end
of a quiet, residential street.
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__x_ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
This is a modest house, a typical 19th century rental house. It is two-stories in height under a front-gable roof. It has a full-width
shed roof porch on half-length posts that rest on high pedestals and are connected by a solid railing that is clapboard-sided. The
posts have ornamental trim and brackets at the eaves of the porch roof. The house is three bays wide and the equivalent of four
bays deep. Windows have 2/2 sash. There is a one-story wing on the south elevation under a shed roof.
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: “Henry Maynard was instrumental in opening up this area for residential development. He filed the
original sub-division plan for Massasoit Street in 1869, and was prominent in the development of Franklin Street, having houses
built for tenement purposes, and selling them later. The 1895 atlas shows nine houses on Franklin Street owned by Mr.
Maynard, including this one.”
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.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [108 FRANKLIN ST.]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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.
The Maynard 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 the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and
Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-
designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The House is a modest example of the Queen Anne style that
would contribute to an historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting,
design and materials.