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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 8 MILK STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 160cS Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. The oldest house on Milk Street, 8 Milk Street is a relatively unaltered 1 'h-story, 3 x 2-bay dwelling which is sheathed in wood clapboards and rests on a mortared stone foundation. Spanning the facade is a single-story,three bay wide porch with a hip roof supported by turned posts with jigsawn tops. The center entrance contains a glass-and-panel door set into a simple surround consisting of pilasters with block tops. The front slope of the asphalt-shingled roof has two gable dormers containing double- hung 2/2 sash with blinds. The remaining windows predominantly contain 6/6 sash and are also flanked by shutters. A single- story, shed-roofed addition spans the rear elevation. The south gable end is sheathed in vinyl siding and the mix of windows on the rear addition includes casement units. A paved driveway extends along the south end of the house,terminating at an early 20t`c. gable-front garage sheathed in shiplap siding. Facing the street each of the double doors has 4 x 2-glass panes over four vertical panels. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the owners/occupants played within the community. Although assessors' records estimate this house's date of construction as 1830,map data suggests it was built in the early 20th century or perhaps was an earlier structure moved to this site. There is no building on this site at the time of the 1875, 1898 or 1906 maps. In 1910 George Tewksbury lotted the land he owned along what is now Hill, Shirley and Tewksbury Streets and plans show that this house was already in place. Milk Street was created about 1930. Manuel Cuhna, a conductor on the street railway,was living here in 1932. In 1942 the house was occupied by Willard B. Hayden, a machinist, and his wife Virginia. Prior to 1950 the house was owned by Edward J. Wheaton who sold it that year to William and Virginia Meadows. Lee and Priscilla Tarbox purchased the property in 1962 and continued to own it until 1971 when it was sold to the present owners, Robert and Jane Marvin(Book 11990,Page 588). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES 1875, 1898, 1906 maps Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. (Book 195, Page 45 1911 plan) Town Directories U.S. Census,various years. Continuation sheet 1