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HomeMy WebLinkAboutstetson-street_0003 FORM B - BUILDING .area Form no. � H 390 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Lexington - s� .s 3 Stetson Street i Cic Name C.C. Goodwin House _ - r Residence ?resent Residence nX ship:[ Private individual 'X Private organization _ - - - - Public z, £` 3riginal owner Vii-- Draw map showing property's DESCRIPTION: N location in relation to nearest cross streets and other buildings Date c 1880 or geographical. features. Indicate north. Source map research O Style mansard Architect Exterior wall fabric white clapboard/shingle FA gray shutters Outbuildings s� Major alterations (with dates) doorway l (recent addition) O Moved Date OApprox. acreage .5 (20980') Recorded by Audrey R. MacCarey; Anne Grady Setting Meriam Hill ; residential street Organization Lexington Historical Comm. developed primarily in the late nineteenth Date 4-19-76 ; March, 1984 century. (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) Set on side of hill - 2 stories left, 3 stories right and back - double front door with light, pedimented with fluted flat columns, long narrow double windows each side front door 6/6 panes, one-story bay window at right side on open porch with lower level porch under - 1 chimney right rear roof, left outside ch;:--n,-iey - porch extends across back at lst floor level. (See Continuation Sheet) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community) This is the only house left in Lexington which is associated with Charles Clinton Goodwin (1839-1905) , a prominent late nineteenth century resident, although Goodwin Road bears the family name. Goodwin was a SIS cia "wholesale druggist, an officer in various druggist s'Ma .- a member of a church choir for 47 years" (Hudson, II, p. 245) . Goodwin moved to Lexington permanently in 1863 and in 1883 built a large estate north of Meriam Street (now demolished) . He was a member of the first board of trustees of the Lexington Savings Bank. When between 1875 and 1889 or for whom Goodwin built this house has not been determined. EIBLIOGRAFHY and/or REFERENCES Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, vol. II (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1913,) . 20M-2/BO INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MA.SSIXMSETTS HISTORICAL CU4IISSION Lexington 390 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: 3 Stetson Street Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE The only Mansard Style house on Meriam Hill, this house must have been one of the first houses to be constructed on upper Meriam Hill. A symmetrical composition with elongated windows and dormers with broadly projecting eaves and returns, this house preserves original finishes except at the entry where a pediment doorway is a recent addition. Staple to Inventory form at bottom