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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house is one of three surviving second Period houses in the Allen- <br /> Blossom Street area, once a major route from Lexinaton to Boston (see Allen <br /> Street area form; the other eighteenth century houses are at 29 Alien Street <br /> and 26 Blossom Street) . Aside from its Georgian profile, skivved clapboards <br /> and granite foundation, however, it has lost more of its exterior finishes <br /> than the others and almost all of its interior finishes as well. A few <br /> original interior finishes remain in the first floor room in the northwest <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> This house and farm is one of manv in this area owned by the ubiquitous <br /> Smith family and the reason this part of Lexington was known as "Smith's End" <br /> in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this case, the <br /> farm was originally owned by Josiah Smith (1724-1784) , who lived in the house <br /> at 26 Blossom Street and was sold in 1785 to his son Abraham (1755-1326) . <br /> Abraham Smith was in the Battle of Lexington and served in the Continental <br /> Armv in 1775 and 1780. He was married in 1788, suggesting a possible date <br /> for construction of this house, and served as an assessor in 1806. 1 After his <br /> death the farm was owned by his sons, Oliver (1789-1875) and William B. (1794- <br /> 1867) . Oliver was an assessor in 1825 and after his death the farm was owned <br /> by 17illiam B. 's son Abram B. Smith. The latter is listed in the 1867 Directory <br /> as a farmer; in 1905 the farm was owned by a William E. Carter, a manufacturer <br /> at the Boston Upholstery Company in Boston. Later in the twentieth century <br /> the farm was owned by the Slocums and is still known as the Slocum place. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington II, pp. 639-640, 644, 647. <br /> Boston: Houghton 1ifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Lexington Historical Society Archives - Burr Church collection <br /> Smith, A. Bradford. "Kite End" (1891) . Proceedings of the Lexington Historical <br /> Society 11(1900) :115. <br /> 1889 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> 1887 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />