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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) One of the three remaining brick-ended Federal farmhouses along what was originally the Cambridge-Concord Turnpike (see 177 Concord Avenue and 503 Concord Avenue forms) , this is the only one with a brick end still visible. (The north brick end has been covered by clapboards since before 1923.) Like two more brick-ended Federal houses in South Lexington -- those at 56 Allen Street and 130 Pleasant Street (see relevant forms) -- this house has a low hip roof and end chimne;7s, although in this case the chimneys have obviously been rebuilt. This (see Continuation Sheet) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) - According to an antiquarian account, this house was built in 1808 by Nehemiah Wellington, a carpenter and a first cousin of the Benjamin O. and Peter Wellington who lived in the house a short distance east on the Cambridge-Concord Turnnike (see 177 Concord Avenue form) . In 1817 Nehemiah sold the house to Josiah Smith (1789-1875) , a son of the Josiah Smith in the house at 26 Blossom Street and a brother of the Ebenezer Smith in the house at 389 Concord Avenue (see relevant forms) . Like his father and brother, Josiah Smith was a shoemaker and most of his customers were in Boston though he employed five or six workers in Lexington. Josiah Smith served as an assessor from 1825 to 1827 but was most noted as a fifer. He was known as "Fifer Si" and played for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery= for 60 years he also played in other military bands, traveled to many states to play, served in the War of 1812, and plaved for soldiers in the Civil War. After Smith's death in 1875, the farm was owned by Henry Jewett and then, in 1889, by his son Arthur H. Jewett, a farmer. The 1906 map shows the house and barn but does not name an owner. Later in the twentieth century it was owned by Henry C. Packard and is often known as the "Packard place." BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington II, pp. 324, 638, 643-644. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Lexington Historical Society Archives, Burr Church collection Smith, A. Bradford. "Kite End." Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society II(1900) :110-112. 1876 map 1889 map 1906 map 1894 Dirgctory 10M - 7/82