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.ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) <br /> 24-story end gambrel w/octagonal wing - left front corner. <br /> Simple entrance porch w/trellis; door w/sidelights w/circular tracery. <br /> 8/2 or 6/1 double-hung sash. Oval window in shed dormer, right side. <br /> A modest Shingle Style cottage with its original finishes intact, this <br /> is one of the few houses of its style on predominantly Queen Anne and Colonial <br /> Revival Ideriam Hill. There is a course of pediment-shaped elements at the <br /> eave of the bay window. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history <br /> and how the building relates to the development of the community) <br /> This house a G.-414e -- d were owned in 1906 by Aril A. <br /> Wetherbee who worked in Boston. The house was described in a newspaper account <br /> as "a pretty cottage home occupied by Mr. Wetherbee on grounds adjoining the <br /> Hayes estate. The house is of a picturesque style with a gambrel roof and <br /> pillared piazza and is painted a moss green with white trimmings" (Lexington <br /> Minute Man, August 2, 1895) . <br /> Glen Road was one of the last streets to be developed on Meriam Hill. <br /> Only on this street and Upland Road adjacent were some of the houses built <br /> speculatively, although it is uncertain whether this house was so built. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Minute Man, August 2, 1895. <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 20M-2/80 <br />