Massasoit Street 93.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, 2011 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 24C-101 Easthampton NTH.301 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 93 Massasoit Street Historic Name:
Peter Maynard Rental House Uses: Present: Single-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1884-1895 Source: Atlases Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding added, ca. 2005 Condition:
good Moved: no | | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.25 acres Setting: This house faces west at the north end of Massasoit Street.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [93MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.301 _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. This is a two-and-a-half story, late Queen Anne style house with a front-gable roof and a wing
of two-and-a-half stories on its south elevation for an L-shaped plan -the most common plan among the houses on Massasoit Street. Queen Anne ornament is minimal on the house and its
proportions are large, which are often the features of late Queen Anne style. The main block of the house is three bays wide and has a generous porch that crosses the west façade, turns
and follows the south elevation before crossing the west façade of the wing. This porch has jig-saw cut railings that duplicate those of Mr. Murphy’s other two houses at 81 and 83 Massasoit
Street. The wing has a one-story bay window on its south elevation under a simple shed roof. Unlike earlier Queen Anne style bay windows, this one is not angled and has no paneled base,
but is simple and geometric in its design. Two chimneys are located on the roof and have ornamental brickwork that is likely to have been the work of the mason-builder Peter Murphy.
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 1869, Henry Maynard filed a subdivision plan for Massasoit Street. By 1873, 12 houses had been built, but then no further development occurred
until until the mid-1880’s. In 1892, Peter Murphy bought two lots for $150. Mr. Murphy was a mason and builder, and owned several properties on this side of Massasoit Street, near Prospect
Street. This house first appears on the 1895 atlas.” 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. 454-P.
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INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [93MASSASOIT STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.301 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 Rental 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 Rental House is a good example of the Queen
Anne style and would contribute to the historic district. This potential historic district has integrity of workmanship, feeling, setting, design and materials.