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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This is a carefully-detailed : Colonial Revival house. Features include modillions at the eaves, a doorway with leaded glass side- and transom lights, a porch with dentil course, Etruscan columns and balustrade, an oriel with wooden tracery, and several bay windows. A very similar design was built by the same builder, Abram C. Washburn, at 3 Upland Road a year later. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The house was built by the unmarried daughters of George W. Robinson, Boston merchant and prominent local citizen, a year after his death. Local tradition states that the Misses Robinson did not like the house at 14 Stratham Road which Robinson had built previously for them, and so constructed this house. Miss Frances M. Robinson, who died in 1934 at 98 years of age, was a directory of the Boston Society for the Care of Girls, and a life member of the Lexington Fellowship of Charities - later known as the Public Health Association. She was, in addition, one of the incorporators of the Lexington Home for Aged People. Miss Sarah Robinson, her younger sister, served on the school committee and was the second woman ever to be elected to it. She was also a member of the committee which revised and updated Hudson's history of Lexington for the publica- tion of the new edition. Both of these ladies were devoted to their church and to the well-being of others in Lexington. Those interests were reflected in their generous bequests. (Worthen, Lexington Minute Man, November 13, 1969) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 586. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Worthen, Edwin B. "George Slept -- Where?" Lexington Minute Man, November 13, 1969. 1889 atlas 1898 atlas 1906 atlas 10M - 7/82