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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON I I FAIRVIEw AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2218 <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 11 Fairview Avenue is set toward the street edges of a small corner lot. The land slopes up steeply from left to right across the <br /> lot, maintained mostly in lawn with some shrubs at the front foundation. A long paved driveway at the right side of the lot <br /> occupies what looks like a planned extension of Hayward Avenue. <br /> The small rectangular house rises 2 '/2 stories from a fieldstone foundation with deeply recessed joints to a hip roof with a single, <br /> shed-roofed dormer on the front slope. One chimney projects from the right slope of the roof, near the peak. Walls are clad with <br /> artificial siding and trim. Windows typically have 6/1 double hung wood sash or 1/1 replacement sash with aluminum trim. The <br /> first floor of the front (Fairview Street)facade is spanned by an enclosed sun porch with a hip roof, center door, modern picture <br /> window units, and a brick stairway with brick cheek walls. Two widely spaced 6/1 windows are symmetrically set on the second <br /> floor, and the dormer contains a horizontal, six-light window sash. <br /> The symmetrical right side elevation has two widely spaced window bays with one window on each floor(6/1 sash on the second <br /> floor, 1/1 on the first). The irregular left side elevation has a variety of window sizes and mostly 6/1 sash, with three smaller <br /> windows on the first floor and three taller windows at the second floor. On the rear elevation, the first floor has a modern wood <br /> deck with cross-braced railings and a small shed-roofed entry vestibule at the back left corner, with a single-leaf door facing the <br /> right side of the property. There are two window bays with one window on each floor, three of them having 6/1 sash. <br /> 11 Fairview Avenue is a very modest example of early 20th century housing in an outlying area of Lexington. The house is <br /> notable for its intact massing, rustic masonry foundation, and some original or early window sash. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> 11 Fairview Avenue represents Lexington's evolution from an agricultural economy to a suburban community in the early 20th <br /> century. The street appears in the town directories between 1906 and 1918. Earlier maps (1898 and 1906)show a large tract of <br /> undeveloped land between Wood Street and Massachusetts Avenue, with a large house and barn farther out on Wood Street <br /> belonging to Ernest K. Ballard, a farmer. By 1922, two households were present on Fairview, and there were still only two <br /> through at least 1945. <br /> The first occupant of 11 Fairview was James W. Denney, a teamster born in Nova Scotia, who moved here between 1911 and <br /> 1915 and stayed through at least 1945. The 1920 census shows his household including his wife Julia (born in Ireland); brother- <br /> in-law John J. Garten, also a teamster; and three young boys between the ages of 5 through 13 (all with different last names), <br /> who were boarding with them. Members of the Garten family continued to occupy the house through at least 1965. These <br /> included Henry J. Garten, a boilermaker, and his wife Helen from at least 1945 through 1965; their son Henry G., who was in the <br /> Army and later employed as a manager(1945 and 1955); and Constance B. Garten, a secretary, and Paul G. Garten, a <br /> manager(1955). <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />
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