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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This house, set in a neighborhood of modest nineteenth century houses, has lost all its exterior finishes. It was moved to this location from elsewhere in town and, although its five-bay-long, two-room-wide profile with a center entrance in the side is similar to that of a Second Period house, documentary sources suggest this house was actually built c. 1850. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) Thishouse was originally on the south corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Wallis Court. It belonged to William Stevens, a clerk in the Customs House in Boston, who moved to Lexington in 1845, suggesting a possible date of construc- tion. The house appears on the 1853 map and is shown on the 1876 map with a long rear ell. By 1889 the property was owned by Lewis Hunt, a hardware merchant who owned a great deal of real estate in Lexington. Sometime between that year and 1895 he moved the main section of the house to this location on Cottage Street and the ell to 31-33 Cottage Street and built a new house on the Massachusetts Avenue site. On Cottage Street this house was presumably rented, for Hunt is still shown as the owner on the 1906 map. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 671. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Worthen, Edwin. Notes Made in 1941-1942. No. 83, Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. 1853 map 1876 map 1889 map 1898 map 1906 map 10M - 7/82