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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 14 Hill Street <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 14 Hill Street is a simple Queen Anne style structure which is 2 'h-stories in height with a fagade which is three <br /> bays wide. The roof is sheathed in asphalt with projecting eaves that end in returns and a brick chimney. The gablefront is <br /> fronted by a single-story porch supported by turned posts with jigsawn brackets at the top of the posts. The sidehall entrance <br /> retains a glass-and-panel door and there are two 2/2 windows adjacent. Crowning the porch roof is a stick balustrade with urned <br /> newel posts. With the exception of the 1/1 window in the attic,the windows retain 2/2 sash. There is also a small Queen Anne- <br /> style fixed window lighting the front stairhall. A 2 'h-story gable projects from the west elevation—it is a single bay wide and a <br /> single bay deep and rests on a mortared stone foundation, like the house. <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 /> This property constitutes Lot 31 of George F. Tewksbury's subdivision, laid out in 1897 (Plan Book 109,Page 22). In <br /> December 1897, Tewksbury sold the lot to Marion Woodworth(Book 2616,Page 146). The house (known initially as 12 Hill <br /> Street)was probably built soon thereafter. Marion's husband, Sanford,was employed as a carpenter and house painter. The <br /> Minute-man reported on April 10, 1909 that the couple had just celebrated their 25th anniversary. The house was later owned <br /> and occupied by their daughter Laura who married Roy McConnell. It remained in the Woodworth family until it was sold by <br /> Laura McConnell to Frederick and Linda Hopwood in 1975. <br /> The present owners purchased the property in 1980. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> 1906 map <br /> Lexington Minute-man,April 10, 1909. <br /> Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />