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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 35 WOODLAND ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 0 2171 <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 35 Woodland Road is located on a residential street in the Merriam Hill neighborhood; its neighbors to the right are closely space <br /> to each other and to the street, while those to the left occupy larger lots with greater setbacks at the front and sides. 35 <br /> Woodland is set well back from the street, and the lot slopes up significantly from front to back. The front and is mainly lawn, <br /> with a straight paved driveway at the right side and a slate stepping stone path from the street to the front door. A mature oak <br /> trees stands at the street edge; other landscaping is mainly foundation plantings. The building consists of a 1 '/2 story main <br /> block with a small ell at the front of the left side, an attached garage at the back right, and a string of small ells behind the <br /> garage. <br /> The rectangular main block rises from a poured concrete foundation to a side gambrel roof with a large interior chimney at the <br /> center. Walls are sheathed with wood clapboards and trimmed with flat cornice boards and fascia. Windows typically have 6/6 <br /> double-hung replacement sash and band moldings. The four-bay fagade contains a slightly off-center doorway framed with a <br /> narrow flat casing and accessed by granite steps; two windows are set to its left, one to its right. <br /> The right side elevation has two windows on each floor; sash are smaller in the half-story. A one-story side-gabled addition <br /> projects from the front of the left side of the house. Presently being re-sided, it is trimmed similarly to the main block and <br /> contains plywood sheathing with shallow vertical battens in its gable peaks. Two slightly asymmetrical 6/6 windows occupy its <br /> street fagade. <br /> The attached garage has a steep lean-to, side-gable roof, flush vertical boarding on the street fagade, and clapboards on its right <br /> side elevation. The garage fagade features an off-center entrance under a gable porch with wood posts and truss bracing, <br /> slender square posts and simple railings. It is flanked by a 6/6 window on the left and a one-car vehicle bay on the right. The <br /> right side of the garage has irregular fenestration. A series of small one-story appendages extend from the back of the garage. <br /> Well preserved and well maintained, the compact cottage at 35 Woodland Road is a representative example of modest yet <br /> skillfully designed early 20th century suburban housing in Lexington. It is distinguished by its gambrel roof shape, solid massing <br /> and fine proportions, asymmetrical fagade, large center chimney, and salt-box form garage. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> 35 Woodland Road represents the later development of the north slope of Merriam Hill, which continued to attract middle-class <br /> professionals. In 1903, the land was surveyed and subdivided for house lots according to a plan prepared by civil engineers H. <br /> T.Whitman and Channing Howard. Woodland Road was then named St. Margaret Avenue and was lined with nearly identically <br /> sized lots, each with about 100 feet of street frontage and about 130 feet deep. On the 1906 map, however, this area was still <br /> part of the Hayes Estate, with buildings constructed only along the perimeter roads (Adams and Grant streets). <br /> The first known occupants of 35 Woodland Road, in 1945, were John H. Halfner, who was in the Navy, and his wife Dorothy J. <br /> Subsequent occupants include Merton S. Barrows, an architect, and his wife Alice M. (1955), and Douglas W. Bryant, a librarian, <br /> and his wife Rene K., a writer(1965). The design of the house is consistent with the work of Royal Barry Wills; further research <br /> is merited to determine the architect. <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />