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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCNMISSION Lexington 592 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: 12 Bicentennial Way Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Since that time but before 1918 (see plan on file with the Lexington Historical Commission) , the house has had many additions, all on fieldstone foundations: two rear ells, the first of which has very high ceilings on the first floor and very low ones on the second; a long, narrow ell to the north (shown in photo) , which was truncated in 1978; and an enclosed porch on the north. The kitchen floor was apparently replaced in 1928, perhaps because of a fire, for newspapers with that date can be seen underneath the floorboards. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE c. 1830-1850, must have been another house on the property predating the Cary ownership. It certainly stands next to a road coming in from Middle Street tJ-.at is still clearly discernible and marked by granite gateposts between 58 and 62 Middle Street (see plan on file with the Lexington Historical Commission) . After the demise of the Cary estate but before the development of the Bicentennial Way area in 1976, the house was at 83 Cary Avenue and was reached by a gravel road coming in from that street. At that time a large, two-story 15-stall barn with stalls on both floors, one of three originally on the estate, stood on the lot now occupied by the house at 10 Bicentennial Way; the barn was taken down by the developer in 1978. Staple to Inventory form at bottom