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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 134 BEDFORD STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 134 Bedford Street is a 1 %2-story side-gabled Bungalow with a front porch recessed under the front roof slope. The house is set <br /> on a stone foundation and sheathed in vinyl siding. The overhang of the roof is supported by six Doric columns resting on a low <br /> wall. Under the porch the center entrance is flanked on either side by two windows. A shed dormer spans the front roof slope. <br /> The windows on the house have been replaced with modern 1/1 sash. To the west of the house is a single-car, gablefront garage <br /> constructed of novelty siding. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house occupies lot 27 of George Tewksbury's 1910 subdivision(Plan Book 195,Plan 45). The original owners appear to <br /> have been Ossian and Genevieve Tuttle who were occupying the house in 1913. He was employed as a clerk at the American <br /> Express Company. By 1932 Alex Ohlson was living here with his wife. The property was later sold by Catherine Watt to <br /> William Kinklis(Book 7148,Page 150). It is still owned by members of the family today. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />