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North Maple Street 100.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 17C-18 Easthampton NTH.83 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 100 North Maple Street Historic Name: Charles L. Graves House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: clapboards Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.585 acres Setting: This house faces east on a residential street of 19th c. houses. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [100 NORTH MAIN STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.83 ___ 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 Graves house originally began as an Italianate style building, and remaining from that initial design are bracketed hoods on its windows. However, it also takes its stylistic designation from the fine, full-width Queen Anne style porch that crosses its east façade. It is a two-and-a-half story house under a front-gable roof, but in comparison to its neighbor at 96 North Maple Street with the same form but which was built later, it has more compact proportions and a smaller ell on the west. The one-and-a-half story ell gains height for its second floor by three, through-eaves dormers on its north elevation. The main block of the house is three bays wide and has a side-hall entry. The porch has a low hipped roof with a pediment over the stair entry. It has ornamental turned posts, turned balusters in its railing and a turned spindle frieze. Scroll-cut brackets ornament the eaves. 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: “North Maple Street was developed residentially during the mid 1860’s. The coming of the railroad in 1867 opened up an entire new area between Main Street and Bridge Road in Florence. This house first appears on the 1873 atlas as property of Charles Graves, a farmer.” 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