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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCt+fISSION Lexington 579 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: 29 Allen Street Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE remains of panelled pilasters are present at the south entrance. The chimney of the south (original) portion has been removed and changes made to the stairs. However, mid-eighteenth century features remain in several of the rooms of this part of the house. In the right hand downstairs room, there is a panelled chimney breast with one very wide overmantel panel. An offset in the cornice molding defines the chimney breast. The north wall of this room retains horizontal feather-edged panelling (now covered with wallpaper) up to the level of the chair rail. The summer beams in all the southernmost rooms examined were unboxed and displayed a plain narrow chamfer. There is raised-field panelling on the fireplace wall of the right hand chamber. The foundation of the central chimney, which remains in the basement, is two brick piers with timbers lain across the tops. There is brick nogging in the north wall, and probably in the other walls of the original portion. The ell addition appears to date from the mid-nineteenth century. A fine cast-iron cook stove set in the chimney of the ell has a patent date of 1859. Perhaps the addition was built shortly after that. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Street (see 673 Waltham Street form) , and by 1889 by David W. Richards, another longer term owner. In 1906 the owner was Willard C. Schuyler; later in the twentieth century the farm was acquired by the Swenson family and is still some- times known as the Swenson farm. Staple to Inventory form at bottom