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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> One of the six surviving Federal farmhouses on or in the immediate <br /> vicinity of what was the Cambridge-Concord Turnpike (see Concord Avenue area <br /> form) , this house is very similar in profile to those at 389 Concord Avenue and <br /> 945 Waltham Street (see forms for these buildings) . Like them, this house has <br /> two rear chimneys but has otherwise lost most of its exterior Federal finishes: <br /> the foundation has been cemented over, an entryway added, and a window over the <br /> entry probably removed. The east side (shown in the accompanying photograph) <br /> has one window on each story; the west side has two. <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 /> According to an antiquarian account, this house was owned in the early <br /> nineteenth century by Joseph Underwood. This is apparently the same Joseph <br /> Underwood who built- the Cutler farmhouse (see 503 Concord Avenue form) . He <br /> sold that house to his mother-in-law Marr Underwood in 1815 (Burgess 1965:85) , <br /> which suggests a logical date for the building of this one, and a house is <br /> shown in this location on the 1830 map. <br /> Joseph Underwood was a .mason and employed several men. He was a <br /> selectman in 1809 and was also a noted singing teacher who gave lessons all <br /> over town and for many years led the singing in the meeting house. He died in <br /> 1845 and in 1846, during an auction in the house of his possessions, the floor <br /> collapsed and all the people and goods fell into the cellar; no one was <br /> seriously hurt, however. By 1852 the house was owned by a G.W. Kuhn and in <br /> 1876 by a A.B. Shedd; in 1889 it was owned by M. Bryant and apparently occupied <br /> by Whitney Foster and in 1906 it was owned by Edward Bryant, a farmer. A 1923 <br /> photograph shows it virtually the same as it is now except for vertical window <br /> panels in the entryway. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Burgess, Marjorie Cutler. A Genealogy of the Cutler Family of Lexington, <br /> Massachusetts, 1634-1964. Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company, <br /> 1965. <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Volume II, p. 715. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin, 1913. <br /> Smith, A. Bradford. "Kite End" (1891) . Proceedings of the Lexington Historical <br /> Society II (1900) :109. <br /> Lexington Historical Society, Burr Church Collection <br /> 1830 map <br /> 1852 map <br /> 1853 map <br /> 1876 map <br /> 1889 map <br /> 1906 map 10M - 7/82 <br />