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                    <text>Inventory No:

GRN.80

Historic Name:

Gibbons, Ben House

Common Name:
Address:

468 Main Rd

City/Town:

Granville

Village/Neighborhood:

Granville

Local No:
Year Constructed:

1890

Architect(s):
Architectural Style(s):

Queen Anne

Use(s):

Single Family Dwelling House

Significance:

Architecture

Area(s):

GRN.D: Granville Village
GRN.F: Granville Village Historic District

Designation(s):

Nat'l Register District (11/05/1991)

Building Materials(s):

Wall: Glass; Wood; Wood Clapboard

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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
80 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02116

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Granville
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Ben Gibbons House

Residence
Residence

c.1900
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Colonial Revival
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Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location
in relation to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate all buildings
between inventoried property and nearest
intersection(s).
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Indicate north
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Exterior Wall Fabric
Outbuildings

clapboard

Shed

Major Alterations (with dates)

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Good

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Moved

Date

Acreage
Setting

UTM REFERENCE

Village

Recorded by

J o a n n e TCeim - PVPG

USGS QUADRANGLE

Southwick

Organization

G r a n v i l l e H i s t o r i c Commission

SCALE

1:25,000

Date

August 1987

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�NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable)

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of
other buildings within the community.
T h i s 2 - s t o r y , 3-bay h i p - r o o f e d s t r u c t u r e has a r o o f l i n e broken by 2 h i p - r o o f e d dormers.
The most n o t a b l e f e a t u r e i s t h e system o f porches on t h e main f a c a d e .

A one-story f u l l

w i d t h h i p - r o o f e d p o r c h c r o s s e s t h e f r o n t facade and a 2nd s t o r y pedimented p o r c h grows
from t h e c e n t r a l bay.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain the role owners played 1n local or state history and how the
building relates to the development of the community.
Ben Gibbons, son o f John M. b u i l t t h i s house.

He became Postmaster a f t e r h i s f a t h e r

i n 1901 and r e t i r e d i n 1941.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
R e g i s t r y o f Deed - 5565/521
Hampden County A t l a s - 1912
I n t e r v i e w - W. Tryon, G r a n v i l l e , MA 1987
W i l s o n , H i s t o r y o f G r a n v i l l e , p . 265

8/85

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