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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 /> 114 Lowell St. is one of several front-gabled Italianate cottages in Lexington and, although not in very good condition, is more <br /> intact than most of the others. The house is rectangular, 1'/2 stories,two-by-three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys. <br /> It is set on a fieldstone foundation,clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. On the south elevation a roof <br /> extension covers a one-story bay on a rusticated concrete block foundation, and there is a shed dormer on the south slope of the <br /> roof. The main entry on the facade has milled brackets under the hood and transom lights over the door;windows are 2/2 double <br /> hung sash. <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 /> It is not clear exactly when this house was built because it has not been possible to trace the original owner in the deeds. The <br /> house was sold in 1927 to the present owners by Frank Haskell Reed,who ran Reed's Dairy a little further south at 72 Lowell St. <br /> (MHC#658). The style of the house suggests it was built in the 1870s, so it is possible that it was built as part of the Reed farm. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 5141: 416. <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 />