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BUILDING FORM (36 Woodland Road) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. The house at 36 Woodland Road (MHC 41142) is a 2 1/2-story, 3 x 2-bay, side-gabled dwelling which is sheathed in wood shingles and rests on a rubble foundation. The building's most distinctive feature is undoubtedly the unusual shingle pattern which alternates courses of shingles with wide reveals alternating with courses with narrow reveals. The shingle courses at the base of the gable and between the first and second stories are flared slightly. The center entrance contains a wooden door with 4 x 2-lights over a single panel, set into a molded surround. The gabled entrance porch is supported by thin Roman Doric columns resting on a wooden deck and stone foundation. The porch displays a wide frieze with cornice returns and shingles filling the gable. The porch has latticed sides and side benches. The wooden steps have modern wrought iron railings. On either side of the entrance there is a pair of 6/1 windows. The upper story of the facade is punctuated by three individual 6/1 windows. Both the north and south gable ends are spanned by sunporches lit by continuous 6/1 windows set above a shingled base and stone foundation. The left porch is slightly larger while the right porch incorporates a rear porch with Roman Doric column. To the south of the house is a single car gablefront garage(MHC#1143)which was constructed in 1928. It is sheathed in novelty siding and retains its original double doors; each leaf has 4 x 2 panes over four vertical panels. A stone wall marks the year property line. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and the roles) the owners.-occupants played within the community. This house was conswicted in 1917 for George Davis and Bessie Fuller on lot 4 of Part A of the Oakmount Park subdivision (a plan was developed in 1903). Directories indicate that Mr. Davis worked as an office manager. George Davis continued to live in the house until the 1940s. Later owners included Girard and Marion Troland(c.1960-c.1980). The property was conveyed to Townsend Troland in 1992 after Girard Troland's death. Woodland Avenue was known as St. Margaret Avenue until the mid 1920s. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed Ational Register Criteria Statement form.