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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This is one of Lexington's best Queen Anne houses, and one of the few <br /> which reveals the influence of the British Old English Style. lvoteworthy <br /> features include the entry porch with carved bargeboard, the overhanc of the <br /> second level of the facade gable supported by huge brackets, the half-tiro-bered <br /> treatment of the gables, and the oriel window with arched tracery. <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 /> The building was owned in 1906 b-,7Edwin Francis Fobes, a manufacturing <br /> confectioner in Boston. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 223. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> 1906 map <br /> Personal communication from irs. Skolnikoff. <br /> 1OM - 7/82 <br />
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