Franklin Street 63.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-168 Easthampton NTH.314 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 63 Franklin Street Historic Name:
Henry Maynard House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1894 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards and shingles Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Studio/shop Major Alterations (with dates): Condition:
good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.158 acres Setting: This is a west-facing house on on a residential street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [63 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH. 314 _x__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The plan and elevation of this house are relatively simple for the Queen Anne style, but the ornament
is well-developed. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gabled roof and there is a large cross-gabled wing on the south elevation for a T-shaped plan. The house is clapboard-sided
with a band of shingles between stories and in the gable ends, separated by stringcourses. Full-width, shed roof porches cross the west elevation and the wing. They have turned posts
and unique arched, string-of-beads brackets. The railings are jigsaw-cut in a geometric floral pattern. Lattice porch aprons complete the design. Windows in the house have 2/2 sash and
there are Italianate arched windows in the gable ends. 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 is the first of three houses in a row built for Henry Maynard at the east
side of Franklin Street. Mr. Maynard played a large part in developing Franklin and Massasoit Streets by selling lots for development and having tenement houses built for leasing.” 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. 466-P. 387
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [63 FRANKLIN ST] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH. 314 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons___________________ The criteria
that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. The Maynard House would contribute to a potential historic district that extends north of Northampton’s primary corridor,
Elm Street, encircling and encompassing the primary feature of that landscape, Round Hill. The potential historic district is significant for its 19th century development from a few
gentlemen’s farms to a neighborhood dense with the homes of its most prominent residents and educational institutions that shaped the character of Northampton for several hundred years
to the present. Architecturally the potential historic district is significant for the mix of high style late Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style houses, the Colonial Revival
and Tudor Revival styles of the 20th century that were often architect-designed by the region’s most well-known designers. The Maynard House is a good example of a Queen Anne style house
built as a rental property. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.