107 North Maple 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
17C-281 Easthampton NTH.136
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 107 North Maple Street
Historic Name: Mrs. Hubbard B. Davis House
Uses: Present: Single-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1867-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Eclectic
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: clapboards, shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations (with dates):
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.208 acres
Setting: This house faces west on a residential
street of 19th c. homes.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [107 NORTH MAPLE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Mrs. Hubbard Davis House is stylistically eclectic having been updated several times after its construction date. It is a two-
and-a-half story house with a front-gabled roof of slate and has a one-and-a-half story ell on the east. The main block of the
house is Italianate in style. It is three bays wide and the equivalent of four bays deep for a rectangular plan. Windows in the
main block have 2/2 sash and Italianate hooded lintels. There is a second story porch on the east elevation that is supported on
Italianate style posts with a brace at the eaves. Around 1900 the house was altered with several Queen Anne style features. Its
front gable field was shingled while the remainder of the house was clapboard sided and two Queen Anne window sashes were
inserted in existing openings. In the gable field at the attic level on the west façade is the fixed-light sash surrounded by small
panes that typifies the Queen Anne window and on the south elevation the stair window received a lozenge -shaped, fixed-light
sash that was often used ca. 1900. The south elevation also has an angled bay window beneath a Queen Anne style oriel
window. Crossing the west façade is a Colonial Revival style porch that would have been added ca. 1910. It has a low-pitched
hipped roof and is supported on Doric columns. It has railings with square balusters.
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 house first appears on the 1873 atlas as property of Mrs. H.B. Davis. The 1875 directory lists
Hubbard Davis, a laborer on Maple Street. By 1884, the property was owned by Jacob Whitmarsh, a carpenter. Mr. Whitmarsh
may have remodeled the earlier house, as some of the detailing does not appear to have been done in the early 1870’s.”
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. 246-P. 151