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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 80 Hancock St. (MHC#737) is one of many Queen Anne farmhouses in Lexington but one of the few that still has its associated barn (MHC#738). The house is a cross-gabled, front-facing T with a rear ell, 2'/2 stories, and three-by-two bays. The front- gabled two-story rear ell is one-by-two bays with a small side chimney. The house is set on a brick foundation, clad with asbestos shingles, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The front entry door has a large-paned light surrounded by small panes and similar sidelights and windows in the foyer area;windows in the rest of the house are large-pane-surrounded-by-small panes/l double hung sash. Queen Anne details include the brackets with a cut-out design at the gable eaves and the full-width porch with a pedimented entry,turned posts, spindle rail, and decorative balusters.-The large side-gabled barn is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and has an asphalt shingle roof. A large metal circular ventilator is embossed with swag and fishscale designs. Under the center front gable is a hay door and a sliding barn door with small-paned windows. Additions to the barn include a shed-roofed one-car garage and connector to the house at the left of the barn door, a hip-roofed one-car garage on a concrete foundation on the west elevation and,behind it, a rusticated concrete block one-story shed-roofed building with a concrete chimney. There is also a shed-roofed clapboarded addition at the rear of the barn. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. This house was built in 1887 by Charles Blodgett(1818-1891),who had previously lived on what is now Middleby St. After Charles' death, his son Walter carried on a milk business here until 1917,when the house and its associated five acres were sold to Florence H. Robinson of Somerville. The Robinsons continued to operate a dairy on the property, F. H. Robinson & Son becoming the first pasteurized milk company in Lexington. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 40. Lexington Directory, 1887, 1894, 1899, 1906. Lexington Minute-man, 12 August 1887, 22 March 1959. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 4160: 41. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.