35 Maynard Road
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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-152 Easthampton NTH.506
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Address: 35 Maynard Road
Historic Name: Horace W. Hosford House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1922-30
Source: Registry of Deeds & Directory
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: concrete
Wall/Trim: brick, stucco
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Windows replaced with vinyl, ca. 2005
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.183 acres
Setting: This house is east-facing on a residential
street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [35 MAYNARD ROAD]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.506
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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 two-story, Colonial Revival style house with a side-gambrel roof that is one of about a half-dozen very similar houses in
its immediate neighborhood of side streets. A popular house form for its available second story space and relatively economical
size, the house is three bays wide and two bays deep and has a center entry with a barrel-vaulted portico on slim columns.
Windows of the first floor east façade are bands of three sashes that are now 9/1 vinyl replacements. At second story level is a
shed roof dormer that extends nearly fully across the roof. It has three bays of paired window sashes. The house is brick on the
first story and its dormer and gambrel fields are stucco-covered. The roof eaves make full returns between stories to create a
pent roof for additional Colonial Revival detailing.
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: “Maynard Road was opened in 1922 through Charles Maynard’s estate on Elm Street. About half of the
present houses were built during the 1920’s, with the rest being mostly after WWII.
The first known owner of this house was Horace Hosford, who was listed here in the 1930 directory and described
therein as the president and manager of the Norwood Engineering Company in Florence.”
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: Plan Bk. 6-P. 58