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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 29 Hayes Ln. is one of several ells of 18th-or 19th-century houses in Lexington that have been separated from their parent <br /> building and moved to a new location(other examples are at 15 Belfry Terr. [MHC#683], 40 Forest St. [MHC#681], and 9- <br /> 11 Cedar St. [MHC#688]). This house is rectangular,two stories, four(irregularly-spaced)-by-two bays, and side gabled with a <br /> rear chimney. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood shingles, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The off-center entry <br /> is under a front-gabled roof,windows are 1/1 double hung sash. The house is of post-and-beam construction and the roof framed <br /> with a principal rafter/common purlin system where the ridge purlin is mortised through the overlapping rafter and the roof boards <br /> run vertically from eave to ridge—techniques typical of the 18th century. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was originally the ell of what was known as the Fletcher House, which was on the northwest corner of the present <br /> intersection of Massachusetts Ave. and Fletcher and Woburn streets, now the grassy area east of the school administration <br /> building at 1557 Massachusetts Ave. The Fletcher House had belonged to Benjamin Estabrook(1729-1803),though was not the <br /> house in which he lived, and after his death was sold by his sons in 1808. It is not clear who had been living in the house or when <br /> it was built,although the construction of the ell definitely points to an 18th-century construction date. A ca. 1923 photograph of <br /> the Fletcher House shows it as five-by-two bays, side-gabled with two ridge chimneys, and having a center doorway surround with <br /> a molded projecting cornice and full-length sidelights. The house was acquired in 1820 by Abner Pierce(1766-1837)and it may <br /> have been Pierce who added the Greek Revival entry. When Pierce died the property was inherited by his daughter Lucy Turner <br /> and she sold it in 1868 to Charles G. Fletcher(1821-1904),a horse trader from Groton who soon moved to Lexington. Beginning <br /> in the late 1880s Fletcher subdivided the 30 acres associated with the house,which extended north from Massachusetts Ave. into <br /> the area where Fletcher Ave. and Hayes Ln. now run, into houselots and built houses intended as rental properties (see Area form <br /> G). In 1895 the ell of the Fletcher House was cut off and moved to its present location on Hayes Ln., an early 18th-century track <br /> that had become a town road in 1822. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Church, Burr. Photograph Collection. Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA. <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mullin, 1913. 2: 221-22, 537, 191-92. <br /> Lexington Directory. 1922-1936. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 188: 61; 231: 271; 246: 212; 1038: 195; 2389: 98. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned,torn down, and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. Cary Library, <br /> Lexington, Mass. <br /> Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 13-16, 25. <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />