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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house was built originally as a substantial Greek Revival structure <br /> by David A. Tuttle, local carpenter. Exterior features which survive from the <br /> original building period are the corner pilasters and broad friezeboard. In nevi <br /> 1905, the house was renovated in the Colonial Revival Style. A front porch 4",L t <br /> with fieldstone foundation and roof balustrade, bay windows, dormer windows/ �J'� <br /> joined by another balustrade were added. There is a nineteenth century barn on <br /> the property. The large oak tree to the left of the house has <br /> for many years been called the geographic center of Lexington. <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 E.A. Mulliken (b. 1823, d. 1899) , a milkman and <br /> farmer in 1857. His son, John Emery Abbot Mulliken (b. 1856) , who was in the <br /> coal business, returned to live in the house in 1906 having made the Colonial <br /> Revival renovations on the house a year earlier. The next owner was Elisha <br /> Horton Tower (b. 1844) , brother-in-law of John E.A. Mulliken. The building <br /> was later owned by William E. Mulliken, treasurer of the Lexington Cooperative <br /> Bank. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Album of newspaper clippings in the possession of-Elizabeth Reinhardt. <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 446, 702. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />