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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This carefully embellished and extensive Colonial Revival building was <br /> featured in an advertisement for asbestos roof shingles, probably at the time <br /> of its construction. The shingles remain on the roof; terra cotta coping <br /> covers the ridges of the hip roof. Decorative features of the house include: <br /> quoins; modillions at the eaves; window caps of Second Period configuration; <br /> an entrance portico with fluted columns, Ionic and Doric; a doorway with <br /> elliptical fanlight and sidelights; an oriel window and a rectangular porch <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was built by George W. Robinson's daughter, Edith, and her <br /> husband Frank Childs. Childs, who had lived in Lexington as a child, graduated <br /> from MIT. He worked in Boston and moved back to Lexington at the time of his <br /> marriage in 1895. He was a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 109, 587. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Photograph file, Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. "George Slept -- Where?" Lexington Minute Man, November 13, <br /> 1969. <br /> 1894 Directory <br /> 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />