132 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-213 Easthampton NTH.78
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 132 North Maple Street
Historic Name: R. Martin House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1867-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate/Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: shingles
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Shingle siding added, ca. 1980
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.581 acres
Setting: This house faces east on a quiet residential street
of 19th c. houses.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [132 NORTH MAPLE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.78
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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 modestly Italianate style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with relatively wide eaves. It is
three bays wide with two full-length windows at first story adjacent to the side hall entry. The windows have large 2/2 sash and
their surrounds have projecting drip molds. Crossing the east façade is a flat-roofed porch on posts with widely overhanging
eaves. There are scroll-cut brackets at the eaves. In the gable field of the east façade is a pointed-top window. This window
form was popular for many decades in Northampton beginning in the 1850s and appearing in the 1880s on Queen Anne style
houses. There is an angled bay window on the south elevation and a two-story ell on the west with a side porch on the south.
The porch’s supports and brackets match those from the east. The house has a fine, hipped roof, two-bay garage.
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 a R. Martin. It was built sometime after 1867
when G.F. Miller filed his subdivision plan for the northern half of North Maple Street.”
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