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BUILDING FORM (9 Audubon Road) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. A good example of the late Shingle Style, 9 Audubon Road is a 1 3/4-story,gambrel-roofed dwelling oriented with its three- bay wide facade oriented to the south. The bottom course of the shingles is flared where it meets the rubble foundation. On the three-bay south facade, the overhang of the gambrel roof forms an open porch which is supported by Roman Doric columns spanned by simple stick balusters. The columns are paired at the wide wooden front stairs which are capped by a slight overhang with stick balustrade. The center entrance contains a six-panel door flanked by diamond-paned sidelights. To the east of the entrance is a three-sided bay window containing 6/6 sash. On the other side is a pair of 6/6 windows. Rising from the front roof slope are three pedimented, shingled dormers, each containing a single 6/6 window. On the east end of the house facing Audubon Road the base of the gambrel is flared above a wide band and recessed frieze which acts as a lintel for the first floor windows. Fenestration on the first floor includes a pair of 3/3 and individual 6/6 window, another larger window has been shingled over. The gambrel above is punctuated by two 6/6 windows with a single window in the attic above. Centered on the rear elevation is a gambrel projection flanked by shed dormers and a small projecting rear porch. To the rear of the house is a single-car, wood-shingled garage with its gambrel front punctuated by an overhead garage door acing the road. There are 6/6 windows on the side elevation. The bulk of the lot is wooded with only the area in front of the ouse cleared. A stone wall marks the west property line. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Describe 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. This property encompasses lot 7, part of lot 6 and half of lot.8 of a parcel of land owned by Augustus Scott which was lotted in 1903. There is no building on this site at the time of the 1906 Atlas. The earliest assessment found for a building on the property is the 1909 Valuation List which indicates that Edward and Katherine Stone were assessed for a house valued at $4000 on Audubon Road. (The two married in 1908). The property was described as including lots 6 & 7, encompassing 15,963 square feet. The first directory listing for the property appears in the 1908-9 directory and indicates that Edward C. Stone was a lawyer at 55 State Street in Boston. From 1918 until about 1930 the house was occupied by Morton Hopkins, a purchasing agent, and his wife. Marjorie and Frederic Johnson, an auto dealer, acquired the property in 1933 and owned it until 1957. Later owners included Kenneth and Barbara Garland(1957-1962)and Stuart and Virginia Dawson(1962-1972). The present owners, William and Alice Hinkle, purchased the property in 1972. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hudson,History of Town of Lexington. ;Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. rLexington Valuation Lists, various dates. 1906 Atlas. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.