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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This is the finest Shingle Style house in Lexington. The house shares many features with the Yerxa House in Cambridge by Hartwell and Richardson; and Susan Maycock, Hartwell and Richardson expert, is comfortable with the attribution of this house to the architects. A balanced design with turrets at either end, one round and one hexagonal, and a steep chateauesque roof with one dormier, this building with overall shingled finish is a cor.r,andinc presence on Waltham Street. There have been few changes to the gracious (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.) Augustus E. Scott was one of Lexington's most prominent citizens. He "came to Lexington shortly after graduating from college to be principal of the high school. Finding his ambitions were more extensive, he studied law and practiced in Boston" (Reinhardt dissertation, p. 102) . He was a state representative from 1379 to 1880 and a state senator in 1885. Ile became a justice in the Middlesex Central District Court. e was president of the Appalachian Fountain Club and a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. He served on the school committee and was repeatedly moderator of Town LieE�`ing. As chairman of the buildina committee of the Hancock School, A.E. Scott got to know Hartwell and Richardson, winners of the architectural competition, first hand. This must have induced him to choose the architects to design his own house. Scott married late at 53. Tradition states that he went to the I_ardi Gras in New Orleans, fell in love with the queen, and married her. i:rs. Scott, is said to have requested that he build her a "Spanish" house. The next owners were the Ryders of Newton, who purchased the house in 1917 for a summer residence. 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, n. 617. Boston: Houghton 1,1ifflin Company, 1913. Lexington Iinute Nan, Iiav 15, 1891. Reinhardt, Elizabeth Wright. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston University. SocietN7 for the Preservation of New England Antiquities photograph collection. 10M - 7/82