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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This is one of half-a-dozen Second Period Vernacular houses which survive in Lexington. The setting of this house preserves something of its rural character as well. The original portion of the house is five bays wide and one room deep. The house exhibits the roof profile and window placement and size similar to those found in the other Second Period Vernacular houses in Lexington. Window sash is a replacement of the original. Exterior finishes are plain. The (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 an antiquarian account, this house was first owned by Joseph Smith (1743-1805) , a son of the Hezekian Smith who had originally owned the farm at 56 Allen Street and a cousin of the Josiah Smith of the house now at 26 Blossom Street and Abraham Smith, later of the house at 92 Blossomcrest (see forms for these houses) . Joseph Smith's age and the date of his first marriage (1765) suggest that this house may have been constructed somewhat later than the c. 1750 proposed on the basis of stylistic analysis (see Archi- tectural Significance section of this form) ; perhaps the house was built by an earlier owner. In any case, Joseph Smith was very active in military and political affairs: he was one of the Minute Men on the Lexington green on April 19, 1775, and participated in later Revolutionary campaigns; he was also a selectman for four years between 1785 and 1793 and an assessor from 1796 to 1798 and in 1804. A later account described him as a masterful presiding officer at political conventions (Smith 1891:116) . After Joseph Smith's death in 1805, the farm was owned by his son Joseph (1767-1813) , who in turn sold it to Marshall Wellington (1789-1866) , a brother of "Captain David" Wellington of the Wellington homestead at 130 Pleasant Street (see form) . In 1838 Wellington sold the farm to Galen Allen (1802-1864) , a selectman for three years from 1847 to 1851, and for many years the property was known as the Allen farm. In 1876 the farm was owned by a G. Bullock, presumably a relative of the Bullocks in the houses at 673 and 643 Waltham (see Continuation Sheet) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 11, 638, 737. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Smith, A. Bradford. "Kite End," 1891. Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 115-116. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Historical Society, 1900. 1876 map ' 1889 map 1898 map 1906 map 1887 Directory lobi - 7/82