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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) <br /> Early single-story wood-frame passenger station approximately 96 feet in <br /> length and 53 feet in width. The gable roof shelters a 25-foot wide train- <br /> shed typical of many medium-sized mid-century ramlroad stations. <br /> This is believed to be the only trainshed depot left in Massachusetts -- if <br /> not in the countyy. Interior has been renovated for a bank, and much of <br /> the exterior fenestration has been altered, though not disfigured. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Cexplain the role owners played in local or state history <br /> and how the building relates to the development of the community) <br /> First regular passenEer service, provided by the Lexington and West <br /> Cambridge Railroad which terminated here, began in 1846, and the depot <br /> may date to about that date. Damaged by fire in 1918, the station was <br /> renovated by the railroad with the construction of a new roof, in addition <br /> to a Colonial revival cupola, balustrade, and colonade. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Kelley, Beverly Alison, Lexington, A Century of Photographs (Lexin€ton, 19e0; <br /> pp. 106-107. <br /> 20M-2/80 <br />