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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This Federal brick-ended house with end chimnevs is one of five such houses in the South Lexincton area (see 130 Pleasant Street, 177 Concord Avenue, 272 Concord Avenue, and 503 Concord Avenue forms) and the only one with both brick ends still visible. It has a low hip roof, like the houses at 272 Concord Avenue and 130 Pleasant Street, and retains some of its exterior finishes, particularly the Federal trim on either side of the front door and the window surrounds on all except the west first-story windows. 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 antic-ua i acc u t thi f as o . lv o ,ned b- Hezekiah Smith (?706-1760) ,/aaboheranecgelo�' eG�os} nSni �einae house at 26 Blossom Street and uncle of the Abraham Smith in the house at 92 Blossom Crest Street (see forms for these houses) . The farm was then sold to Ebenezer Munroe (1744-1826) , who fought in the Battle or Lexington and served in the New jersey campaign in 1776. The next owner was Ebenezer T.unroe's son john (1785-1865) , who married in 1811, suggesting a verb- probable date for the construction of this house. After john Munroe's death, the farm was sold to Mloses H. Roberts, a farmer who moved to Lexington in 1868 and who, in 1906, still owned the house and faxx;ed the land. Later in the twentieth century it was owned by Laurie Frost and knownoasiem/ The house has had some alterations over the years, most notably the two two-story crabled-roofed ells on the rear, apparentIV added at different tines (since they are joined by a curious flat roof) , but before 1923, when they are visible in a photograph. This photo also shows the house with a balustraded porch, now gone. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Smith, A. Bradford. "Kite End" (1891) . Proceedinc-s of the Lexington Historical Societv II (1900) :115. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington II, pp. 467, 472, 634. Boston: Houghton ,ifflin Company, 1913. 1876 map 1889 map 1906 map 1887 Directory 1906 Directory 10M - 7/82