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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 130 BEDFORD STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Located at the corner of Hill Street and Bedford Street, 130 Bedford Street is a Colonial Revival dwelling constructed c.1910. The two-story house is rectangular in plan and capped by a hip roof with a shed dormer emerging from the front slope. There are five bays of openings on the first floor of the fagade but only three on the second floor. The center entrance is fronted by a three-sided,hip-roofed vestibule. Windows contain a mix of double-hung diamond pane and 6/1 sash. Behind the main house is a detached, early 20th century gable-roofed garage constructed of concrete block with wood shingled gable ends and exposed rafter tails. There are two overhead garage doors facing Bedford Street. 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. This house occupies lots 25 and 26 of George Tewksbury's 1910 subdivision(Plan Book 195,Plan 45). The original owners appear to have been Willard and Eveline Reade who were occupying the house in 1915. By 1920 Census records indicate that Mrs. Reade was a widow, living here with her two sons and a daughter. By 1930 she had moved to Medford and the house was owned and occupied by Robert and Catherine Watt. The 1930 Census indicates that Robert Watt was then 49 and had immigrated from Scotland in 1891. He was a plumber and lived here with his two sons and daughter. Members of the Watt family continue to own the property until 1994. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. U.S. Census,various years. Continuation sheet 1