Maple 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 23A-61 Easthampton NTH.180 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 63 Maple Street Historic Name:
Joel Abercrombie House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1864-1866 Source: Registry of Deeds Style/Form: gable-and-wing form
Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good
Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.286 acres Setting: This house faces west and has on its east east a medical building.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [63MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.180 ___ 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 is a one-and-a-half story house with a front-gable roof, and a wing on its south that is also
one-and-a-half stories in height under a side-gable roof. Roof eaves are widely overhanging. The building has apparently lost some of its stylistic trim but it does retain full length
first floor windows in the gable section. Likely, it was Italianate in style when it was first constructed. The wing has a shed roof dormer on its roof. It is four bays wide and one
bay deep and it has an ell on its east elevation of one story. Both the doors of the gable and wing sections have metal hoods that were popular at the mid-20th century. Sash in the first
floor windows is 6/9 and elsewhere it is 6/1. 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 1864, Joel Abercrombie bought a lot of land for $250 from Hiram Stebbins. Two years later,
he sold this lot ‘with building’ for $2000 and a $700 mortgage. Mr. Abercrombie founded the Florence Hotel in the late 1850’s and managed it for a number of years.” 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. 407-P. 251, 374-351, 236-87, 220-177