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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 26 Hayes Avenue <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <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 /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> The house at 26 Hayes Avenue is an expression of the Craftsman style applied to a 2 ''/2-story, side-gabled form. The house is set <br /> on a rubble foundation with stonework also supporting the front and side porches. The exterior is sheathed in wood shingles and <br /> the asphalt-shingled roof displays an unusual tapered overhang which is of greatest depth at the apex of the gables. The ends of <br /> the gable rakings and other projections display a decorative notched effect and are supported by decorative beams at the top and <br /> base of the gables. A projecting two-story gable at the west end of the fagade gives visual interest to the three-bay wide fagade. <br /> The front porch gable is half timbered and the roof is supported by bold,tapered posts. At the west end of the house a brick <br /> exterior chimney emerges from the roof adjacent to a single-story porch. Windows include a mix of tripartite,paired and <br /> individual wooden windows with 4/1, 6/1, and 8/1 sash in molded surrounds,with shutters. There is a fixed sash with geometric <br /> tracery lighting the shed-roofed bay window on the east wall and a shed dormer emerging from the front slope. <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 /> The house at 26 Hayes Avenue was constructed on land(lot 69)that was part of the Oakmount Park subdivision, initially laid <br /> out in 1903. The land was sold by Frank Locke to Marion Wadsworth,wife of Henry in June 1911 (Book 3613,Page 350). The <br /> 1920 Census lists the occupants of the house as Henry L. Wadsworth,his wife Marion and son George. He worked as a lawyer <br /> in Boston. Mrs. Wadsworth was still living here in 1942. <br /> Later owners included Joan Schur who sold the property to Kathleen Dolan in 1974 (Book 12701, Page 197). <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. —Plan Book 145,Page 3. <br /> Sanborn Insurance Maps <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> 1906 map <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />