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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON I 1 HAYES LANE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2228 ❑ 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. 11 Hayes Lane is set very close to the road, facing the side of a small, narrow lot that slopes up steeply from the street. An asphalt driveway extends along the right side of the lot, with a parged retaining wall and a paved walkway set between the front of the driveway and the fagade of the house. A small lawn area occupies the front setback; trees are scattered at the back end of the lot. The building consists of a 1 '/2 story main block with a fully exposed basement, a parallel two-story gabled wing at the back, and a small one-story rear addition. The five by one bay main block rises from what appears to be a poured concrete foundation to a side gabled roof without gable returns. One chimney rises from the rear slope of the main block near its left end. Walls are sheathed with artificial siding and trim. Windows typically have 1/1 and 6/6 replacement windows without trim. Centered on the south facade is a single-leaf door, sheltered by a shed-roofed porch that also extends across the two window bays on the right side of the facade. The porch rises from a poured concrete foundation to a narrow skirt of artificial siding, contemporary wood railings, slender square posts, and a wood-shingled tympanum on the end walls. On the street side elevation, the main block has one window centered on each floor. A two-story high, one-room deep gabled wing runs parallel to the gable of the main block and extends past the end wall of the main block, forming a one-bay wide jog on the fagade elevation. The jog has one window centered on each floor of its fagade and side elevations, and two vertically aligned but asymmetrically set windows on its back elevation. The back elevation of the main block includes a small, one story, shed-roofed addition with vertical flush board siding and a rubble stone foundation. 11 Hayes Lane is a relatively early building in its streetscape; its scale and cottage form are increasingly uncommon in Lexington. Although it has lost its original siding and trim, the building is notable for its hillside siting, unusual rear ell/jog, and surviving fenestration pattern. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 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. 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 1927, but the residence at number 6 was the only building standing there in that year. Residential development was likely deterred by the existence of the large manufacturing plant of the Jefferson Union Co., which produced unions and flanges, near the intersection of Hayes Lane and Fletcher Avenue. The factory was built as the Grant Gear Works in 1888, was purchased by Jefferson Union Co. in 1905, and appears on the historic maps from 1927 through 1950. Continuation sheet I