125 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
17A-208 Easthampton NTH.74
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 125 North Maple Street
Historic Name: Calvin Bartlett House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1867-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder: Calvin Bartlett, Builder, attributed
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: not visible
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
House sided in wood shingles, n.d.
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 1.17 acres
Setting: This house is set back from the street on
a flat lot bordered at the sidewalk by a hedge row.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [125 NORTH MAPLE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.74
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
The Calvin Bartlett House is a two-story Italianate house with the flat roof of an Italian villa. The house is two stories in height
and its wide eaves are supported on paired brackets. It has a wide frieze beneath its eaves, in which on the west façade is a
grille, a feature often found in this style. The wood-shingled house is three bays wide and three deep for a square plan. The
shingle siding is a later alteration as the siding would originally have been either clapboard or flushboard. It has a center entry
sheltered by a flat-roofed portico on columns. Paired brackets ornament the portico eaves. The entry is slightly recessed and
framed by a trabeated surround of pilasters supporting an entablature. Broad, three-quarter-length sidelights flank the entry
door. A wrought iron railing borders the portico roof. Windows in the house have architrave surrounds with drip molded lintels
and they have 2/2 sash. There is a one-story bay window on the south elevation of the house.
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: “in 1867, Calvin Bartlett bought lot no. 3 of G.F. Miller’s ‘Village Lots’ subdivision on North Maple Street
for $200. This was ¾ of an acre and, as Mr. Bartlett was a carpenter, he probably built this house himself.”
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. 264-P. 162