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26 Maple Street 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: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month / year): March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 23A-138-001 Easthampton NTH.2523 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 26 Maple Street Historic Name: Elisha and Eliza Hammond House Uses: Present: single-family house Original: single-family house Date of Construction: 1846-1860 Source: map of 1860 Style/Form: Gothic Revival Architect/Builder: Elisha Hammond Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: artificial siding Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Siding added ca. 1990. Windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.256 acres Setting: This house is east-facing on a residential street that is tree-lined. INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [26 MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2523 __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 one-and-a-half story, front-gabled roof house with transverse gables on north and south, one of which is two-stories, the second one-and-a-half stories. There is a rear ell on the house as well. The house has the steeply pitched roofs of the Gothic Revival style, though it has lost any of the Gothic Revival ornament that one might expect. There is a full-width porch across the east façade and it is supported on posts. The house has one interior chimney and a front-gable dormer on the south roof. Sash is 2/1. It might be verified in the field whether the house is masonry beneath the added siding as is suspected by local historians. This house represents the simplicity that many members of the Association of Education and Industry preferred for their houses during the 19th century. 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. Elisha Hammond and his wife Eliza Preston Hammond were among those who joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in 1844 and withdrew in 1846 as the Association folded, although Elisha was among the six men who made a last effort to make the Association profitable through the cotton manufacturing business. They were among a number of members who remained in Florence, however, after 1846 and settled on Maple Street where Association founder Samuel Hill and his brother in law Edwin Eaton had bought up land and were trying to keep Association members as part of the community by selling them lots and giving them financial assistance to build their own homes. This house is part of the Eaton Lots and was built by the Hammonds. Elisha Hammond was a man of many artistic accomplishments. Born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1779, he started his working life as a mason specializing in stucco work. He studied with painter Chester Harding and along with farming made a living as a portrait painter. He is known for having painted the portrait of Frederick Douglass on his visit to the Community. Hammond continued to work as a painter and mason after 1846 and he and Eliza took in one of the fugitive slave Basil Dorsey’s sons as a masonry helper. The Hammonds were Abolitionists and are known to have taken part in the Underground Railroad that passed through Florence. After Eliza’s death, Elisha remained in Florence in this house until 1882 when he left to live with adopted children in Brightwood. In 1895 F. Stall owned the house. Frederick Stall and his wife Anna and their daughter Jennie lived here and in 1900 Frederick was assistant overseer in the winding department at the silk works. Jennie was a violin teacher. By 1915 Frederick had died and Anna moved to 32 Maple Street. Susan E. Clark lived in the house in 1926 followed by 1935 by Wilbur M. Heady who worked in Florence managing a grocery department. 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] [26 MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2523 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 property would contribute to a Florence Center Historic District. The potential historic district of Florence Center is significant as the commercial, residential, institutional center of the village that developed from 1657 when it was set off as Northampton’s “Inner Commons” as agricultural land and 1681 when the first sawmill was erected at a falls on the Mill River. The agricultural and industrial village developed through the 18th and 19th centuries around industry on the Mill River, agriculture on the alluvial flood plain and the Strong Tavern and later Cottage Hotel at the intersection of Main and Maple Streets. It is significant for the silk industry that flourished through the Civil war as an alternative to slave-picked cotton and for the establishment of the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, a utopian community that existed 1843-1847. Association members after its close continued in Florence their principles of equality by running the Underground Railroad through the village and harboring fugitive slaves. It is significant as the home of Sojourner Truth. 19th century industry in the Center included the Florence Sewing Machine Company, which built its own housing. Architecturally the Center is significant for the range of Gothic Revival, Italianate, Stick Style, French Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style homes, for its commercial blocks and library in the Revival styles of the late 19th century. Gothic Revival and Italianate style churches are architect-designed in high style versions. The potential district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.