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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> The late nineteenth century farmhouse, set at the beginning of a disused <br /> road into Waltham (see Ricci's Lane area form) , appears to have begun as a two- <br /> bay-long, one-room-wide, one-and-a-third-story-high cottage to which a large <br /> two-story shed roof ell was added. This house is now a two-family house. <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 first appears on the 1898 map, at which time it was owned by <br /> Martin O'Brien, a farmer. O'Brien still owned the house in 1906 and was one <br /> of a number of Irish living near Waltham Street south of Concord Avenue, one <br /> of the areas of Lexington to which the Irish had moved by the end of the nine- <br /> teenth century (see Woburn Street area form) . <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> . 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br /> IOM - 7/82 <br />