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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) Although this Federal vernacular farmhouse and its outbuildings have been altered over the years, they retain a sense of the historic farmstead. The original house is a small version of the typical five-bay wide, one-bay deep Federal farmhouse; the three-bay stable at the rear has butted rafters, suggesting it was constructed at a later date than the house; and the artist's studio on a fieldstone foundation on the east side of the property was built in the 1920s. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the com=ity.) This house appears to be on the 1830 map, but, because it is right under the "e" of the word "Turnpike,' it is not absolutely clear. On the 1852 map the owner is Isaac Childs. In 1835 he had married a daughter of Ebenezer Smith, the shoemaker who lived in the house at 389 Concord Avenue and the owner of the land north of both this house and the one at 321 Concord Avenue; this suggests 1835 as a possible date for the construction of the house. Isaac Childs moved to Waltham about 1862 and on the 1876 map the house was owned by Michael Cashman, who remained the owner for the rest of the century. In the 1887 Directory Michael Cashman is listed as a farmer; in the 1906 Directory as a farm hand. - This house has had a number of additions over the years: the projecting gable over an entry portico with Tuscan columns; a five-sided bay window on the west end with a balustrade on the roof; a porch on the east end with Tuscan columns and a railing similar to thebalustrade on the west; and a long ell on the north side with a three-sided oriel window. All the above additions have fieldstone foundations except for an additional room at the north end of the ell which is on cement. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington II, up. 107, 643. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. d 1830 map 1852 map 1876 map 1889 map 1906 map 1887 Directory 1906 Directory 10M - 7/82