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                    <text>Inventory No:

GRN.106

Historic Name:

Gibbons House

Common Name:
Address:

168 Sodom St

City/Town:

Granville

Village/Neighborhood:
Local No:
Year Constructed:

1800

Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):

Federal

Use(s):

Single Family Dwelling House; Tavern

Significance:

Architecture

Area(s):
Designation(s):
Building Materials(s):

Wall: Glass; Wood; Wood Clapboard

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�AREA

FORM NO.
106

Town

Granville

Address

fo

/ 0 Sodom S t r e e t

Historic Name

Gibbons House

Use:

Present

Residence

Original

R

p. i(tenra
S

DESCRIPTION
Date

1800

Source

Assessor's Records

Style

Federal

Architect unknown
Exterior Wall Fabric
Outbuildings

clapboard

None

Major Alterations (with dates)

Condition

Good

Moved

Date

Acreage

100.0 a c r e s

Setting

Rural

Recorded by

Joanne Keim - PVPC

deoss

UTM REFERENCE
USGS QUADRANGLE_

Southwick

Organization

Granville

SCALE

1:25,000

Date

August 1987

(

Historic

Commission

�NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable)

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
This 2-story,

5-bay r e s i d e n c e i s r e l a t e d because o f massing t o o t h e r

buildings i n Granville.

(#11, # 5 1 ) . A d i s t i n c t i v e f e a t u r e o f t h i s b u i l d i n g i s t h e p a i r i n g o f windows on t h e
main (east) facade.

Simple a r c h i t r a v e t r i m surrounds t h e door and windows.

A 1-story

p o r c h , p r o b a b l y added a f t e r 1900, extends across t h e main facade.

-

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played 1n local or state history and how the
g i l d i n g relates to the development of the community.
The map o f 1855 shows M a r t i n T. Gibbons as t h e owner.

Local t r a d i t i o n maintains that

t h i s house was used as a t a v e r n w i t h M a r t i n as t h e p r o p r i e t o r .

He c o n t i n u e d t o own i t

u n t i l 1912 when N. Thompson was t h e occupant.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
R e g i s t r y o f Deeds - 3211/115
Hampden County A t l a s - 1855, 1870, 1894 and 1912
I n t e r v i e w w i t h W i l h e l m i n a Tryon, G r a n v i l l e , MA 1987

8/85

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