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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6 HAYES LANE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 0 2227 ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 6 Hayes Lane occupies a small, narrow lot near the intersection of Hayes Lane and Massachusetts Avenue. The building has a small front setback that is relatively flat; the land slopes down steeply through the length of the building and ends in a flat back yard. The lot is maintained chiefly in lawn, with an evergreen hedge along the street edge, a paved walkway between the street and the front entrance, a straight paved driveway along the left side of the house, and stone paving blocks leading from the driveway to the side of the front porch. The building consists of a 1 '/2 story main block and two-story rear addition with a garage in the basement. The two by two bay main block rises from a fieldstone foundation with deeply recessed mortar joints to a front gambrel roof without returns; this roof is clad with wood shingles. There is no chimney, but a metal stove pipe rises above the left slope of the roof near the center. Walls are clad with wood clapboards on the first floor and wood shingles on the second floor of the main block, trimmed with narrow corner boards and a plain fascia with a narrow bed molding. Windows have 2/1 double hung, wood sash with plain flat casings. Windows occur singly on the fagade and are paired on the side elevations of the main block. The fagade consists of a full-width entrance porch with a hip roof, square posts, no railing, modern granite block steps at the left side, and an offset, single-leaf doorway. The left side elevation has two shed-roofed dormers whose paired windows align with those on the first floor. A small porch at the back corner of this elevation has a flat roof supported on a square corner post, wood railings with square balusters, and wood steps. The right side elevation has a six-light horizontal window near the front and paired windows towards the back on the first floor, and paired windows on the shed roofed dormer near the back of this elevation. The perpendicular back addition rises two stories above a fully exposed basement to a gable roof with end walls facing the sides of the lot. It is sheathed with clapboards and trimmed with narrow corner boards. On its visible gable end facing the left side of the lot, it contains paired windows on the first floor, two single windows above, and a garage door at the exposed basement level. The right side of the addition has irregular, single and paired windows. 6 Hayes Lane is a typical example of modest, early 20th century housing in Lexington. Well-preserved, it is notable for its uncommon Dutch Colonial style, the rustic stonework of its foundation, wood shingled roof, surviving front and back porches, original fenestration, and period sash. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the roles)the owners/occupants played within the community. Formally established as an open way in 1822, Hayes Lane is thought to have served since the early 18th century as a passageway for transporting hay and cattle. The road appears on the 1853 Walling map, where it winds its way up past Turner's Hill and continues in some form up to Granny's Hill. (The section north of Vine Brook is part of today's Grant Street.) In 1898 and 1906, the street was labeled a private way. Hayes Lane was sparsely developed through the mid 20th century. Lucy Turner, the widow of Captain Larking Turner, owned a significant amount of meadowland near the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue, Vine Brook, and Woburn Street in the mid 19th century. Thirty acres of her property at the present Hayes Lane and Fletcher Avenue, adjacent to Massachusetts Avenue, were bought in 1868 by Charles G. Fletcher, a Groton horse trader. The land stood undeveloped for many years. House lots were subdivided on the west side of Hayes Lane by Continuation sheet I