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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 'y unity Knoll Ave. (MRC#770)is a well-preserved example of a front-gabled Italianate farmhouse in Lexington that still has its associated barn. The house is rectangular,2/2stories,two-by-two bays,and front-gabled with a side chimney. It is set on a granite foundation,clad with wood clapboards,and roofed with asphalt shingles. On the west elevation is a three-by-one bay two- story side-gabled addition on a fieldstone foundation. At the rear of the main block is a one-story shed-roofed addition and at the rear of the side addition is a one-story flat-roofed addition. The main entry has been moved from the facade to an enclosed porch on a concrete foundation in the front reentrant angle;windows are 2/2 double hung sash- Itallanate finishes include window heads with projecting molded cornices,three-sided one-story bays with paneling underneath the windows on the front and cast elevations, and similar paneling underneath the replacement window in the original doorway,which is still marked by its side pilasters. The 11/2-story front-gabled two-by-two-bay barn(MHC#72)is set on a fieldstone foundation,clad with wood clapboards,and has a garage door. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Elsee continuation sheet Discuss the histoq of the building- Erplain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the ownersloccupants played within the community. This house was built in 1876 by a Samuel Brooks of East Bethel, Vermont,and Albert P. Paine of Randolph,Vermont. Brooks and Paine apparently built the house as a speculative venture, for in February 1876 they had purchased a seven-acre parcel from an Orrin Douglass of Boston and in May sold back about an acre of it,which by then 'included this house,to Douglass' wife. The Douglasses apparently rented out the house and so did the next owner,a woman who lived in Boston and bought the property in 1879. In 1893 the house was sold to Daniel A. German,a farmer;he did live in the house and continued to do so even after he built the one now at 45 Reed St. in 1901. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists, 1875-1878, 1892-1909. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Plans. Cambridge, MA, 1384: 176; 1409:215-1 1524:433;2215: 328; Pl. Bk, 332,Pl.28. El Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked you must attach a completed National Register Criteria statement forth.