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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 416 CONCORD AVE. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 0 2211 ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 416 Concord Avenue occupies a large lot on the south side of a busy thoroughfare through south Lexington. The vicinity includes mostly late 20th century residential buildings, widely spaced and with generous setbacks. A small commercial node is located nearby to the east, at the intersection of Waltham Street. Mead Meadow Farm abuts the property to the south. The large lot slopes gently down to the back (south) of the property. A deep front setback contains a semi-circular paved drive, which extends back to a straight paved driveway on the west side of the house. Ground cover, plantings, and mulch cover the front yard, while the side and back yards are maintained in lawn with scattered trees and shrubs. The rectangular volume of the house rises 1 '/2 stories above a poured concrete foundation to a side-gabled roof. The raised basement (fully exposed at the rear) is enclosed by a poured concrete foundation. Walls are clad with artificial siding and wood trim, consisting of narrow corner boards and frieze boards around the walls and simple band moldings at the windows. Windows typically exhibit double-hung replacement sash, with some single-light casement windows on the front and west side. The house has two chimneys: an exterior brick chimney on the east exterior wall and a small interior chimney set off-center at the ridge line. The fagade (north) elevation contains a Colonial Revival center entrance with a panelled wood door, narrow reeded pilasters, half-height sidelights, and a concrete stairway. Bands of casement windows flank the doorway on the first floor. Above, a nearly full-length shed dormer contains a single center window flanked by paired windows, all double-hung. The asymmetrical east elevation includes an exterior chimney towards the front, two single double-hung windows on the first floor, paired double-hung windows centered in the half-story, and a one-bay garage at the rear of the basement level. The west elevation is also asymmetrical, comprised of casement windows at the first floor, paired double-hung windows at the half-story, and a single door at the back of the first floor that accesses a contemporary wood deck with square wood balusters. A large, front-gable garage with three vehicle bays is located to the west of the house, with a similar setback from the street and a wide paved surface in front. The garage has a poured concrete foundation and artificial siding and trim. On its fagade (north) elevation, the structure's asymmetrical gable-end encompasses two individual bays on the east and a wider opening on the west. All three openings have shallow shed-roofed hoods and wood and glass paneled doors. A small 8/1 replacement window is offset in the gable peak, surmounted by a very small hoisting beam. Side elevations of the garage each have an original or early 8/1 double-hung wood sash centered on the wall. The east elevation, facing the house, also has two modern doorways: one toward the front of the wall and the other in a small pitched-roof addition at the rear of the main block. 416 Concord Avenue is well-maintained, but has lost historic integrity from the application of artificial siding, the enclosure of the front porch, and altered fenestration on the west elevation. The property is notable for its survival in an area of much later development, with its large lot, characteristic Bungalow form and exterior chimney, and unusually large garage. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the roles)the owners/occupants played within the community. Concord Avenue was established in 1806 as the Concord Turnpike, one of the radial highways connecting Boston with outlying communities. Waltham Street, located not far to the east of this property, was laid out by the early 18th century, providing access between Lexington's village center and more remote parts of the town, as well as to the adjacent town of Waltham. The sparse development that occurred along Concord Avenue in the 19th century tended to cluster near the intersection of these two Continuation sheet I