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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 23A-287 Easthampton NTH.2521 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 3 Maple Street Historic Name: Williston Mill Boarding House Uses: Present: multi-family house Original: multi-family house Date of Construction: ca. 1852 Source: Directories Style/Form: Greek Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: granite Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: garage Major Alterations (with dates): vinyl siding and replacement windows added, ca. 2005; window opened as door, ca. 1980. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes yes | | Date Acreage: 0.728 acres Setting: Building faces north towards a small green. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3 MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.2521 _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. One of several former boarding houses in Florence, this building has maintained much of its original form. It is a two-and-a-half story hipped roof building five bays wide and three bays deep. It has one front hipped dormer on its north façade and two interior chimneys. It has a two story porch on posts on the façade. The building has had vinyl siding applied and its windows replaced with vinyl 1/1 sash, so has lost much of its original appearance but remaining is its wide Greek Revival style center entry that is recessed, has sidelights, and a five-light transom. 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. This boarding house was built ca. 1852 in Florence after the utopian community, the Northampton Association for Education and Industry had folded and the Association’s mill had become the Williston Mill. When the Northampton Association was forced to close there was a final effort to make it economically self-sufficient and that was in 1845 when two of the Association’s members, Samuel Williston and George W. Benson, tried to make a stronger business by buying up the mill. This boarding house was constructed to serve that mill. By 1860 it was identified on the atlas as a boarding house, but its affiliation with either of the two remaining mills, the Nonotuck Silk Mill and the Parsons Silk Mill was not identified. By 1873 the boarding house has become part of the Greenville Manufacturing Company that had taken over a portion of the Nonotuck Silk Mills and had begun producing cotton. In 1884 A. L. Williston had bought up the Greenville Manufacturing Company properties, including the boarding house and the houses along Nonotuck Street, and the Nonotuck Silk Company had taken over the Greenville mills. A. L. Williston still owned the boardinghouse in 1895. 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. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [3 MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 NTH.2521 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. This property would contribute to a Nonotuck Mill Historic District for the industry that occupied the site on the Mill River throughout much of the 19th century and included a dam, mills, housing and a boarding house for its workers. Several properties not yet inventoried would contribute to the potential district as well. The association of many of the mill owners and workers with the Northampton Associations for Education and Industry and the Abolition Movement provide a secondary history context for the district. Architecturally the buildings in this potential historic district represent the mid-to late 19th century revival styles and the common forms constructed for boarding houses, superintendents’ houses, single-family workers’ house and a textile mill.