Maple Street 43-47.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 23A-56 Easthampton NTH.177 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 43-47 Maple Street Historic
Name: Oran Storer House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: c. 1860 Source: visual evidence Style/Form: altered Italianate Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick and concrete Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Carriage barn Major Alterations (with dates): Porch enclosed
on wing; siding added, windows replaced, exterior stairs added, first floor windows enclosed, post-1980. Condition: fair Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.386 acres Setting: This
is a west-facing building in a neighborhood of commercial and residential buildings.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [43-45MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.177 ___ 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. This building has lost much of its character in the past 35 years due to alterations that are listed
on the front of the form. It has, however, retained a number of its key stylistic features. The house is two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with a one-and-a-half
story wing on the south and a two-story wing on the north. The main block of the house has wide eaves in Italianate style that are supported on paired brackets and second story windows
have shed roof lintels supported on brackets. In the gable field at attic level is a Palladian window composition with pointed openings. This section of the house is three bays wide
with two doors and a window on the first floor sheltered by a full-width porch on Italianate style chamfered posts, which extends across the north wing as well. The first floor fenestration
has been significantly altered by closing in one window that was full-length to suit commercial use on the interior and altering a second window to become a doorway. The south wing originally
had a porch across its west façade. It has now been enclosed. The building is vinyl sided and its windows have been replaced as well with vinyl. 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
1976: “In 1864, Oran Storer, a machinist, bought a large lot on Maple Street from Samuel L. Hill for $650. Two years later, he sold the northern half of the lot, on the corner of the
‘Concrete House Road’ for $600, and kept the southern half for his own homestead. Other 19th century owners of the Mr. Storer’s property were Dr. Edward Gaylord, a physician, and Stephen
Fuller, an insurance agent.” 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. 361-P. 235, 220-185