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