97 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-033-001 Easthampton NTH.85
Town: Northampton
Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence
Address: 97 North Maple Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: Single-family house
Original: Single-family house
Date of Construction: 1884-1895
Source: atlases
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: brick
Wall/Trim: asbestos
Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Garage
Major Alterations (with dates):
Siding added, ca. 1950
Condition: good
Moved: no | x | yes | | Date
Acreage: 0.525 acres
Setting: This house is set on the east side of North Maple
Street on a tree-shaded lot.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [97 North Maple Street]
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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NTH.85
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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 the only house of its plan and elevation on North Maple Street. It is a gable-and-wing form, Queen Anne style house that
is two stories in height. It sits on high brick foundations and has broad eaves that are thinly boxed. Its entry is in the angle
between the gable and the wing behind a round porch that is supported by turned posts and has turned braces at its eaves. The
door is centered at the angle and above it is a through-eaves, front-gabled dormer. The two sections of the house are each one
bay wide and have chimneys on their roof ridges. The wing has on its south elevation an angled bay window to add volume to
the interior. There is an open porch on the east elevation of the wing. A larger version of this house’s plan and elevation is the
Seth Hunt House at 115 Bridge Street.
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 the Form B of 1980, “This house first appears on the 1895 atlas as the residence of Charles R. Hood, a foreman at the
Norwood Engineering Company, which was also located on 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.