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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 114 East St. (MHC#714) is a nice example of a front-gabled Italianate farmhouse that still has its associated barn and,despite <br /> some alterations, still retains many of its original finishes. The original house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2'/z stories,two-by- <br /> three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys. The rear ell is front-gabled,two stories, and two-by-three bays. The house <br /> is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. A greenhouse has been added on the <br /> east elevation, a one-story shed-roofed addition at the rear of the ell, and a one-story flat-roofed addition on a concrete foundation <br /> on the west elevation. The main block has 2/2 or 1/1 double hung windows and a front entrance with a transom light and one <br /> sidelight,the other sidelight having been replaced with an engaged Tuscan column. Italianate finishes on the main block include <br /> three-sided bays on the facade and both side elevations,paired decorative brackets at the cornice,brackets under the projecting <br /> surround of the front second-story window,panels under the bay windows, and a wide eave board in the front gable. A porch with <br /> Tuscan columns extends across the facade and Tuscan columns also support the gabled roof over the side entrance of the rear ell. <br /> The 1%2-story front-gabled barn (MHC#715) is on a brick foundation and has been converted to a studio. A garden shed at the <br /> rear of the property has a tall chimney and one open bay for a vehicle. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was built in 1881 by Adam Peters (b. 1843), whose family had come to Lexington from Germany in 1855,who had <br /> lived in the house now at 49 East St. (MHC#709)after his father had moved it there in 1860, and whose sister Barbara had <br /> married Timothy K. Fiske in 1857 and lived in the house now at 71 East St. (MHC#711). The 35 acres of land originally <br /> associated with this house had been sold in 1868 to Adam's brother Peter, but the latter did not build a house and in 1876 lost the <br /> property in a mortgage foreclosure to his brother Adam. Lexington assessors' record indicate that in 1877 Adam Peters built a <br /> barn and an outbuilding on the farm and then, in 1881, this house. Lexington Directory's list Adam Peters as a milk dealer. The <br /> house remained in the Peters family until 1925 and was acquired in 1934 by Oscar B. Kenrick, who raised market vegetables and, <br /> later, nursery plants. The farm was subdivided in the 1960s. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Guy and Elaine Doran, personal communication 1998. <br /> Lexington Directory. 1887, 1894, 1899, 1901-02, 1906, 1908-09. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1868-1883. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1057: 225; 1392: 301;4886: 265; 5781: 444; Plan No. 851 of 1960. <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />