63 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-168 Easthampton NTH.314
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 63 Franklin Street
Historic Name: Henry Maynard House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: c. 1894
Source: Registry of Deeds
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Studio/shop
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.158 acres
Setting: This is a west-facing house on a
residential street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [63 FRANKLIN ST]
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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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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.
The plan and elevation of this house are relatively simple for the Queen Anne style, but the ornament is well-developed. It is a
two-and-a-half story house under a front-gabled roof and there is a large cross-gabled wing on the south elevation for a T-
shaped plan. The house is clapboard-sided with a band of shingles between stories and in the gable ends, separated by
stringcourses. Full-width, shed roof porches cross the west elevation and the wing. They have turned posts and unique arched,
string-of-beads brackets. The railings are jigsaw-cut in a geometric floral pattern. Lattice porch aprons complete the design.
Windows in the house have 2/2 sash and there are Italianate arched windows in the gable ends.
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 is the first of three houses in a row built for Henry Maynard at the east side of Franklin Street. Mr.
Maynard played a large part in developing Franklin and Massasoit Streets by selling lots for development and having tenement
houses built for leasing.”
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. 466-P. 387
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [63 FRANKLIN ST]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Continuation sheet 2
NTH. 314
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 Maynard House is a good example of a Queen Anne style
house built as a rental property. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design
and materials.