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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 16 Adams St. (MHC#698) is one of several simple front-facing L-shaped Italianate cottages in Lexington and,while not as intact as some,contributes to the group of 19th-and early 20th-century houses on lower Adams St. The original house is 1%Z stories with a cross-gabled roof and a small end ridge chimney. It is on a brick foundation, sided with vinyl,and has an asphalt shingle roof. The main entry is located in the re-entrant angle,the windows are 2/2 double hung sash, and a porch,also in the re-entrant angle,has turned posts and cut-out brackets. The two-story shed-roofed rear addition is on a cement foundation. A small barn (MHC#699) at the rear is front-gabled and retains its wood clapboards and sliding door. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built by George Simonds Jr. (1838-1900) in 1868, for he had purchased the land on which it stands in August 1867 and in May 1869 was assessed for a house on it. George Simonds Jr. had presumably grown up in the house now at 185 Burlington St. (MHC#745), which was built by his father, and is identified as a carpenter in 1880 and 1890 Directories. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 628-29. Lexington Directory, 1887, 1894, 1899. Lexington Valuation Lists. 1867-1869. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1034: 157. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.