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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This Greek Revival house is the only one of its type in its neighborhood and, in spite of its vinyl siding, retains many of its exterior features: the full entablature across both the sides and gable ends, the corner pilasters, and the side entrance in the gable end. The long rear ell was apparently added relatively early, for it also is on a granite foundation. The exterior chimney is almost certainly a later alteration. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The section of Marrett Road on which this house stands was not built until 1832 so this house was presumably built sometime between that date and 1852, when it is indicated on the map. The owner at that time was apparently Horatio Wellington, who was married in 1841, suggesting a possible date of construction. Wellington had apparently moved to Charlestown in 1852 and by 1876 the owner was George G. Fuller; in 1889 the owner was Albert F. Hitchings, a farmer who had moved to Lexington in the late 1880s, and in 1898 the house, by then with not only its long rear ell but also an attached barn and outbuildings on the south which have since been removed, was owned by the Haseltines, for whom no occupations are given in either the 1899 or 1906 directories. ti BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) t Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 735. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. 1852 map 1876 map 1889 map 1898 map 1906 map 1899 Directory 1906 Directory 10M - 7/82