Nomination for Maplewood Hotel

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NPSForm10-900 (3-82) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries - complete applicable sections 1. Name historic Maplewood Hotel (preferred) and/or common Home Information 2. Location Center street & number 320-330 Maple Stfeet city, town Holyoke N/A vicinity of state Massachusetts 3. Classification Category Ownership district - public X building(s) X private structure both site Public Acquisition object - in process N/A being considered code 025 county Hampden Status _ occupied - unoccupied X work in progress Accessible - yes: restrictec yes:unrestrictec .no Present Use - agriculture commercial educational entertainment government industrial military 4.

Owner of Property name Maple Dwight Associates 54 Devonshire Street street & number city, town Bos ton N/A vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description state courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Hampden County Registry of Deeds street & number 50 State Street city, town Springfield 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Inventory of Historic Assets title of the Commonwealth has this property been determined eligible? date 1978 _federal X state depository for survey records Massachusetts Historical Commission city, town Boston OMB No.1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 For NPS use only received OCT | 3 1983 date entered N/Anot for publication code013 museum park private residence religious scientific transportation _other: E1derly Housing Mas sachusetts state Massachusetts 01103 - yes Xno - county - local state Mas sachusetts 7.

Description Maplewood Hotel, 328-330 Maple Street, Holyoke, MA Condition excellent & good fair _ deteriorated . ruins unexposed Check one X unaltered altered Check one X original site date N/A Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

The Maplewood Hotel consists of two parcels - 330 Maple Street, a Tudor Revival style townhouse, and 328 Maple Street, the Romanesque Revival style hotel proper. These two Structures, built within 10 years of each other have, been interconnected in use and ownership since the 1920's. Fronting on a parklike square and occupying a prominent corner location, they form an important anchor in the cityscape and mark the transition from Holyoke's business district to the substantial late 19th century residential neighborhood lying to the west. 328 Maple Street: The Maplewood Hotel Romanesque Revival in design, the Hotel is H shaped in plan, stands 4½ stories on Maple Street and due to a rise in the terrain comes to a full 5 stories on Essex Street.

Contributing to its prominent statureare the structure's two major facades: the comm- ercial one fronting on Essex Street defined by its handsome stone arched and recessed entrances and the hotel's main entry on Maple Street highlighted by decorative arched and paneled window surrounds as well as by a turret on the eastern corner. A number of distinctive architectural elements lend the building much dignity. One such feature is its pressed metal cornice which sits on a brick frieze into which are inserted intermittenly square stucco panels. Both rest on brick corbelling that is cantilevered out five courses. An additional ornamental detail of note, located on the building's corners, are pressed metal spirals that extend from the fourth story and terminate in a hemispheric cap at the roofline. IT." The Maple, Street facade, which is. 5 bays, serves as the main entrance to the building.

An ascending external stairway of brick and sandstone leads to a small canopied shed- roofed entry that is supported by wooden columns with floral capitals and a dentil frieze board. The upper stories of this elevation are composed of brick laid in a running bond pattern. The fenestration is delinated by grante sills and brick or granite lintels with brick corbelling placed above each second story window. Those on the first and second story are recessed within brick panels. ::t Elements which further highlight this facade include a moorish arch on the fourth story which springs from an extended granite sill and surrounds an inset of brick and a double hung window . An additional decorative feature is the use of a turret which rises from a second story carved floral lintel on the east corner and terminates in a conical slate roof and metal pinacle.

At the ground floor, the Essex Street facade of the hotel contains three bays, each entered through romanesque arches springing from granite bases and caryed floral capitals. One bay (number 72) leads to the hotel entrance and stairway; the other two bays lead to storefronts, originally occupied by the hotel restaurant and barber shop, currently occupied by Junior Achievement, Inc. The hotel entrance (number 72) has a floor grate with glass inserts and panelled double wooden doors with colored glass side panels. The storefront bays (numbers 68-70) have the same stonework with a double door and glass transom framed by cast iron posts and capitals and floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. Above the ground floor, the facade repeats the motifs of the Maple Street facade.

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet Maplewood Hotel Item number 7 CaNRS, usaianly, BcEivedT date antered Page 1 The windows on this facade are symmetrically placed in pairs; each floor utilizes different ornamental detail such as corbelling above the third story windows and moorish arches surrounding the fenestration on the fifth floor. 330 Maple Street 330 Maple Street is a 2½ story, five-bay Tudor Revival style structure. It features a gable roof covered with slate cut in a scallop pattern, a dormer, and a prominent orna- mented half-timbered cross gable with a carved panel. The balance of the facade is brick with brownstone sills and lintels. Iwo molded brick beltcourses with terra cotta borders are placed level with the tops of the first and second floor windows.

The main entry is set off by an elaborate wooden cornice which has been obscurred to some extent by modern- ization of the doorway. Evidence indicates that the entire facade originally supported a wood-framed porch across the first level where only the cornice now remains. Originally a residential townhouse with three levels, this structure was converted to office use in 1924, with one model apartment remaining. An auditorium was added to the rear portion of the building in 1927. At that time, 330 Maple Street was functionally combined with 328 Maple by a series of breakthroughs at four different levels. The buildings have been used in combination since that time.

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Significance Maplewood Hotel, 328-330 Maple Street, Holyoke, MA Period prehistoric 1400-1499 1500-1599 1600-1699 1700-1799 X 1800-1899 -X 1900- Areas of SignificanceCheck and justify below archeology-prehistoric community planning archeology-historic conservation agriculture economics .architecture education art engineering commerce exploration/settlement communications industry invention landscape architecture law literature military music philosophy politics/government _ religion science -sculpture X social/ humanitarian theater transportation other(specify) Specific dates 1889-90 Builder

Statement of significance

/Architect Frank Beebe Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The Maplewood Hotel and the adjoining Tudor Revival style townhouse stand prominently in a late 19th century urban neighborhood whose focus is a Victorian park-like square. The significance of these two buildings is strongly tied to their long standing phéta thrope use or disnanty enanin ddyia bnadine laple ind i1 tapostant tot basnto the earliest residential hotel in the city. Retaining integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, and association, the Maplewood Hotel Buildings meet criteria A, B, and C of the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed in 1889-1890 by Frank Beebe, the Hotel was the first of its kind to be constructed in the city and reflected the unprecedented economic expansion of the 1880's which generated a population able to support a first-class facility of this kind.

The builder, woolen manufacturer Frank Beebe, followed a common pattern by investing in con- struction and becoming a resident landlord. He was far more well-to-do than most builder- landlords, however, and his Maplewood Hotel was an impressive addition to the city. An 1895 publication describes it as follows: The Maplewood illustrates the perfection attained in the preparation of homes for people who want a home feeling without the care 'attending it': Here are suites of apartments, large and small, furnished or unfurnished, and in the same building an excellent dining room is kept. The elevator communicates with every floor, the building overlooks Athletic Park (now Library Park) and its site on Maple Street cannot be surpassed by any in the city....

(The building) is one of the handsomest in the city of brick with brown stone trimming, and has sixty rooms, and was the first of this style in the city. --Holyoke, Past and Present, 1745-1895, L.L. Johnson, Transcript Publishing Co., pp. 137-139. Much of the hotel's significance is derived from its association with Frank Beebe, a regionally important industrialist who not only constructed the building, but who also was principally responsible for its later use as a philanthropic center. Beebe's wealth came largely from the Beebe and Webber woolen mills in Holyoke that had been founded in the 1860's by his father, Jared Beebe, with the elder's son-in-law, Joel S. Webber. After working in the woolen mill, the youngi Frank took over his father's part ownership in the business, presiding over periodic enlargements and amassing a personal fortune of nearly $700,000.

Having retired from business in 1901, Beebe devoted much of the rest of his life to charitable work. always been known for his personal integrity and his modest style of life. His residence in the Maplewood from 1900-1906 bears this out; elegant and 9.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Major Bibliographical References Holyoke, Past and Present, 1745-1895, Transcript Publishing Company, 1895 Holyoke Newspaper Clipping files, Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke Room Green, Holyoke, MA., Yale Historical Publication, Green, Constance McLaughlin, Holyoke, Massachusetts: A Case History of the Industrial 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 9,309 square feet Quadrangle name Springfield North Quadrangle scale 1:25000 UT M References ALu8/ 16/917/11410 416|714|91310/ Zone. Easting Northing cuLuL BLU LTLu Zone Easting DL F Northing GLULLILAJ LLL dauaa lL Verbal boundary description and justification 30. The nominated property includes only the lot on which the building stands; it is described in the Holyoke Assessors maps as parcels.

List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries state code county N/A code state code county code 11. Form Prepared By architectural material supplied by Mel Gadd, arch., Kathryn Kubie, Preservation Planner with Kristin 0'Connel1 of Amy. Anthony Assoc.; name/title Massachusetts Historical Commission 54 Devonshire, Boston, MA 523-1621 organization Massachusetts Historical Commission date July 1983 street & number 294 Washington Street telephone: (617)c727-8470 IcE2 city or town Boston state Massachusetts: 02108 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: national _ state local As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Natlonal Park Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature ctuu RWesbuska.

State Historic Preservation 9/30/83 Otilcer Massachusetts Historical Commission date For NPS use only I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Entered in the fekcepor ot ino Naliona Regisner National Regioter Attest: Chief of Registration date 11/20/83 date United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form coaaicyt Continuation sheet Maplewood Hote1 Item number 8 Page 1 comfortable as it was, it was a far cry from the opulent mansions being built by his fellow industrialists nearby. The ideals of "plain living and high thinking" that influenced Beebe's personal life also colored his charities.

Particularly drawn to the settlement movement that had begun in the 1880's, he visited leading settlements in the country and formulated a philosophy of giving based on enabling people to help themselves. He strove to put into practice the ideas of his friend Dr. Washington Gladden, the Ohio clergyman who became nationally known for his writings advocating harmony among classes and a form of applied Christianity expressed in socially responsible action that fostered the dignity of the individual. Although Beebe's wish to establish a settlement never came to fruition, he contributed generously to projects that met his criterion of encouraging self-sufficiency. In October of 1921 he conveyed the Maplewood property, now worth $120,000. to the Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial League, a social betterment organization.

Just before his death in 1927, he created the Service League Foundation, to which he bequeathed most of his estate. The purpose of this organization was to distribute funds to educational and other programs furthering his ideals. The Maplewood property which by this time included the townhouse next door, at 330 Main Street, was conveyed to the Service League Foundation in 1927 for the purpose of "establishing, promoting, maintaining, and assisting the Gladden House... social settlements, community centers, institutions, programs, and enterprises in harmony with the purpose of the Gladden House plan, which purpose is to learn mutually how to live together and work for social and economic betterment,...

the promotion of right living and the education of people for more efficient service and greater happiness in the work of life." These charitable uses were carried on by the tenants of the League and continue today under the auspices of the Home Information Center, which currently occupies the building. While the Maplewood Hotel stands as a physical memorial to its builder, it houses the living memorial to his generosity. - 360 STILES, 9 500 F 36.0 27.0 MOORE, 4 2430 SF 270 27.50 - 440.0 MAPLEIVOOD HOTEL 328-330 MAPLE ST. HOLYDKE, MASS. ASSESSOR'S SHEET II SCALE 1"=50" MAPLE 35.50 34.0 35.50 34.0 10 3550 SF CARTAGENA, 5. MCCANN, "GOLON 35.50 11 3400 SF JR. 34.0 ALLEY 81.06 RIOPEL 12 S F &J. - EMEDIÑA 35.50 1*) 13 BEDOYA, 340 55.0 22.33 22.67 SOBON 214 15 SHEEHAN 2'2.33 T 82.50 330 370 50.0 OLDE 16 3300 SF ANTHONY, 3700= SF 18 5000 SF ANTHONY, A.Se CORP. 33.0 37.0 50.0.

55.33 29.67 3 19,670 SF CITY OF HOLYOKE 4980 S F E.&D. TRUST 81.06 55.0 82.50 55.33 RNI 267040 SF $o Y,J. 29.67 8 HIGH 27.50 I 55.0 27.50 27.50 55 29 2200 S F HABERMAN, E. &D. 30 SF E.&D. 31 8800 SF 32 4400 S F HALPERN, H.M. HALPERN, HERBERT 55 0 2444 E.dD. 2750 E.&D-n 27.50 27.50 55.0 27.50 | 27.50 ALLEY 91 1517 1484 1493 15.081484 1483 15.231491 14.83 1522 14 90 GAONON, R.H, MORLARTYE. 20 18 WF - TITE IS s9R. NELENDERE BEAURES526 DUFRSNLE- 55.0 33 4400 SF HABERMAN, E.

55.0 24.44 485 WAMBACHaS6 ERUEL 5 996 3CHOI8S6 n ts 150 NMICHONCe98 SMARLANS I5E 2750 1489 JS 286 SBEAUREGARD, d 1 cs X3SS3 0 001 28 06 0 08 0$9 NASO Form - 17 ("R" June 1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Maplewood Hotel Hampden County MASSA CHUSETTS L resubmission - nomination by person or local government - owner objection - appeal Substantive Review: L sample Reviewer's comments: request Working No. OCT | 3 1993 Fed. Reg. Date: _ 2-5-85 Date Due: Action: ~ACCEPT Intorod In the -RETURN Hadtonel Eegistor _REJECT- Federal Agency: Lappeal -NR decision Recom./Criteria Reviewer Discipline Date - see continuation sheet 11/10/83 Nomination returned for: _technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3.

Classification Category Ownership Public Acquisition 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description Lyes - no Condition -excellent - good fair - deteriorated -ruins unexposed Check one -unaltered -altered Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance -summary paragraph completeness - clarity - alterations/integrity - dates - boundary selection Status Accessible Present Use Check one -original site -moved date 8.

Significance Period Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Builder/Architect summary paragraph - completeness - clarity 0 1.100 - applicable criteria justification of areas checked J relating significance to the resource - context - relationship of integrity to significance - justification of exception -other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _national state _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature title 13.

Other date -Maps - Photographs -Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed- Date -Phone: Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet MAPLEWOOD HOTEL 328-330 Maple Street Holyoke, MA Photographer: Mel Gadd 1385 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Location of Negative: Maple Dwight Assoc. c/o Alexander Kovel, 80 Lincoln Street (617) 542-2917 Boston, MA 02111 Dat MAPLEWOOD HOTEL 328-330 Maple Street Holyoke, MA Photographer: Mel Gadd 1385 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Location of Negative: Maple Dwight Assoc. c/o Alexander Kovel,80 Lincoln Street (617) 542-2917 Boston, MA 02111 Dat MAPLEWOOD HOTEL 328-330 Maple Street Holyoke, MA Photographer: Mel Gadd 1385 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139 Location of Negative: Maple Dwight Assoc.

c/o Alexander Kovel, 80 Lincoln Street (617) 542-2917 Boston, MA 02111 Date of Exposure: March 30, 1983 Maplewood Hotel ERNEST E. PROULX MAYOR July 29, 1982 CITY OF HOLYOKE OFFICE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - HaxA OOECEYED JUL 301982 MASS. HIST. COMM. Mr. Joseph Orfant Massachusetts Historic Commission 294 Washington Street Boston, MA 02108 Dear Mr. Orfant: As advocates for the City of Holyoke, this office is actively involved in both, rehabilitation and preservation of Holyoke's architectural resources. One historic focal point of the City is the public library and the buildings that surround it. We have invested and continue to invest money in buildings and landscape on three sides of that block, and applaud the efforts of others to do the same. The building that Amy Anthony Associates is planning to rehabilitate is a visual anchor on the corner of Maple and Essex Streets.

stood in that place since the beginning of this century and has served as the home for several community services, as well as dwellings. The style and grace of the architecture add significantly to the character of the Library Park area, and this office would like to go on record as supporting the effort to record the building on the National Register of Historic Places. Respectfully, Ahmins t. Mcc McCo1gan TJM/1a xc: Philip Cote, Holyoke Historic Commission Alexander Korel