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North Maple Street 132.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 17A-213 Easthampton NTH.78 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Florence Address: 132 North Maple Street Historic Name: R. Martin House Uses: Present: Two-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1867-1873 Source: Registry of Deeds and Atlas Style/Form: Italianate/Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: shingles Roof: slate Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Garage Major Alterations (with dates): Shingle siding added, ca. 1980 Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.581 acres Setting: This house faces east on a quiet residential street of 19th c. houses. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [132 NORTH MAPLE STREET] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.78 ___ 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 modestly Italianate style house, two-and-a-half stories in height under a front-gable roof with relatively wide eaves. It is three bays wide with two full-length windows at first story adjacent to the side hall entry. The windows have large 2/2 sash and their surrounds have projecting drip molds. Crossing the east façade is a flat-roofed porch on posts with widely overhanging eaves. There are scroll-cut brackets at the eaves. In the gable field of the east façade is a pointed-top window. This window form was popular for many decades in Northampton beginning in the 1850s and appearing in the 1880s on Queen Anne style houses. There is an angled bay window on the south elevation and a two-story ell on the west with a side porch on the south. The porch’s supports and brackets match those from the east. The house has a fine, hipped roof, two-bay garage. 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: “This house first appears on the 1873 atlas as property of a R. Martin. It was built sometime after 1867 when G.F. Miller filed his subdivision plan for the northern half of North Maple Street.” 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. 246-P. 151