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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This unusual house, set very close to a nineteenth century farmhouse at <br /> 116 Woburn Street, was apparently converted from a former auto repair garage. <br /> Evidence of its former use is the hoist still present in the gable of the <br /> facade. The building material is a further oddity: three sides of the house <br /> are of granite cobblestones, _grey on the Vine Street side and pink on the <br /> others. The gambrel-roofed profile plus the fact that this building does not <br /> appear on the 1906 map suggests it was built in the 1920s or 1930s. <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 /> According to the 1935 Sanborn atlas, the first available map since 1906 <br /> that shows structures on this section of Woburn Street, at that time this <br /> building was a . <br /> j i <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (r — <br /> 1935 Sanborn map <br /> 1OM - 7/82 <br />