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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 2142 MASS. AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 1602 <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 /> Located at the southwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Audubon Road, 2142 Massachusetts Avenue is a two-story,hip- <br /> roofed dwelling constructed in a Colonial Revival style in the early 20th century. The Massachusetts Street facade is fronted by a <br /> single-story,three-bay wide porch supported by pairs of Doric columns. Underneath the porch the simple doorway is flanked by <br /> a pair of modern 1/1 windows. There are two window openings on the second floor of the facade and a hip dormer centered on <br /> the front roof slope containing a pair of 6/1 windows that are probably indicative of the original sash configuration. There is a <br /> two-story,three-sided projection at the rear of the east elevation. The projection on the west side is fronted by a deck. <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 stands on part of the land subdivided by Augustus Scott(see 277 Waltham Street,MHC#461)in 1903. This <br /> house appears to have been built between 1910 and 1920; it was originally known as 614 Massachusetts Avenue. The first <br /> listing found for the property indicates that Dr. George W. Day, a dentist,was living here in 1915. Dr. Day and his wife Ethel <br /> are listed as the occupants on both the 1920 and 1930 Census returns. In 1941 the house was conveyed to George and Helen <br /> Kirk(Book 6537,Page 573). Members of the Kirk family still own the property today. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. —Plan Book 158,Plan 10 <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />