60 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-137 Easthampton NTH.94
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 60 North Maple Street
Historic Name: Edward B. Goodwin House
Uses: Present: Two-family residence
Original: Single-family residence
Date of Construction: 1867-1873
Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas
Style/Form: Italianate
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: parged brick
Wall/Trim: asbestos
Roof: slate
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Porches added, porch enclosed, siding applied, ca. 1900.
Condition: fair/poor
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.256 acres
Setting: This is an east-facing building on a
residential section of North Maple Street.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [60 NORTH MAPLE STREET]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.94
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Now screened by a two-story, stacked, Colonial Revival style porch that was added later, this house is strongly Italianate in
style. It is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof that has wide eaves supported on paired Italianate brackets.
Windows in the house have hood lintels on brackets – mark of a well-designed Italianate house – and sash is 2/2. There is a
two-story wing on the south elevation and in the angle of the main block and the wing is an added one-story room, which could
originally have been a porch. The house has a two-story ell that is four bays long on the west elevation. It is somewhat unusual
with a cantilevered, hipped roof on its north elevation. The ell is covered with faux stone siding.
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, Edward Goodwin of Simsbury Connecticut bought ¾ of an acre fronting on North Maple Street
from Israel Graves for $700. This was part of the subdivision which had been filed by Mr. Graves and D.G. Littlefield in 1862 for
the area between North Main and North Maple Streets, bounded by Graves Street (later Myrtle, now Bardwell Street). The
Williamsburg line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad cut through this subdivision in 1867, and a freight house and
depot were built here also. Mr. Goodwin became the station agent, as well as a real estate agent, and maintained his residence
until his death around 1890.”
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: Nk. 246-P. 85, 208-404