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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON I 1 LOWELL STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2241 ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. ff 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 Lowell Street occupies a large, steep, hillside property that extends between Lowell Street on the west and Westminster Avenue on the east. The property is bounded by a substantial stone retaining wall at the Lowell Street edge, with remnants of parging, and two flights of cut granite steps up to the main entrance. The steep front yard is terraced and maintained in lawn and perennial beds; a line of large trees occupies the lower terrace, along with a modern metal picket fence. Along the Westminster Avenue frontage is a fieldstone wall; dressed granite posts with chiseled margins frame openings for a walkway and a large, L-shaped driveway. The rectangular building rises 2 '/z stories from a brick foundation to a front gable roof with gable returns; it has a cross-gabled side ell of similar height and form and a two-story rear ell with a saltbox gable end. Two slender interior chimneys are located at the ridgeline near the center of the main block. Walls are sheathed with wood clapboards, capped sill boards, corner boards, and a high flat fascia with a narrow bed molding. Windows are typically 1/1 double hung replacement sash with band molding; they commonly occur in contiguous pairs and trios. All around the house, wall fascia is ornamented with horizontally set, diamond-shaped appliques and decoratively sawn paired brackets at wall corners. The peaks of the main fagade gable and cross-gabled side ell are clad with vertical boards with a scalloped bottom edge. The side ell also displays decoratively pierced panels at the gable returns and a decoratively appliqued wood panel at the peak of the gable. A one-story porch wraps around the front, south side, and back of the main block; its shed roof is supported by slender turned posts, with the diamond-shaped applique on its otherwise plain fascia; it has a wood deck and no railing. On the fagade (west) elevation of the main block, an offset entrance under the porch has a single leaf door, full height sidelights, a rectangular transom, and modest pilasters and entablature. It is flanked by a rectangular bay window with diamond-shaped appliques on its fascia. Upper floors of the fagade contains a narrow center window flanked by a trio of windows on each side of the second floor and, in the half-story, an elaborate Palladian window unit with five window sash of varied sizes and sill and head heights. Its large center sash has a semi-circular glazed transom. The right (south) side elevation has one single window and a small angled bay on the first floor, under the porch roof. One pair and one triplet of windows are asymmetrically set on the second floor, while a long shed dormer with a hip roof is lit by a pair of windows flanked by a single window on each side. The rear of the main block contains a single window on the first floor, paired windows on the second floor, and a single window centered in the gable peak. The lower rear ell has a ridgeline parallel to the main roof, with a saltbox shape, offset single leaf door, and overhanging second story with a Palladian-motif window motif composed of three non-contiguous rectangular windows. The cross-gabled ell on the north side rises the same 2 '/z story height as the main block; only one bay wide, it has paired windows centered on the first floor and a single window centered on the second and half-stories above. A one-story, flat roofed appendage fills the northwest corner between the fagade (west)elevation of the main block and the cross-gabled side ell. Extending the line of the front porch, it is detailed with trim and windows similar to the main block. The flat back yard is chiefly occupied by driveway, supplemented by areas of lawn. Located at the back of the lot are two small modern utility sheds. Continuation sheet I