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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This is one of perhaps half-a-dozen Second Period Vernacular houses built in the mid-eighteenth century or earlier which survive in Lexington. It is a fine example of an eighteenth century farmstead and preserves a nineteenth century barn and some of its farm acreage. Noteworthy Second Period features include the building's profile, the narrowness and placement of the windows with two windows on either end of the facade grouped together, the substantial central chimney, and the cornice molding (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.) According to the genealogist of the Cutler family, this house was built by Solomon Cutler, who inherited the land, apparently with no buildings, from his father in 1760. The house was presumably built sometime between that date and 1772 when Solomon moved to New Hampshire, for, in 1787 when he sold the property to his brother Thomas, it apparently contained "one dwelling house and barn and other buildings." The property remained in the Cutler family until the mid-nineteenth century: Thomas' son Amos inherited it in 1812 and sold it to his brother Leonard in 1820; Leonard died in 1852 and it was then acquired by Hugh J. Maguire, a farmer. The property is still owned by Maguire descendents (Burgess 1965:84) . BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Burgess, Marjorie Cutler. A Genealogy of the Cutler Family of Lexington, Massachusetts, 1634-1964. Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company, 1965. Lexington Historical Society archives, Burr Church collection. IOM - 7/82