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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 89-91 Bedford St. (MHC#752) is one of the most intact Italianates in Lexington with similar finishes, i.e., dentils at the cornice, paneled cornerboards, etc. The 2'/2-story, cross-gabled house is essentially cross-shaped, though the arms are neither directly opposite nor the same length. Two chimneys are located on the ridge. The house is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. There is a one-story addition on a brick foundation in the north rear reentrant angle and, at the rear, an attached front-gabled carriage house (MHC#753)that is now a two-car garage but still has its large swinging doors in the gable end. The west entry, probably the original one, is in the west front reentrant angle and has a roof supported by square posts with paired brackets. The east entry, in the east front reentrant angle, is enclosed and has transom lights and a double outer door. Windows are 6/6 double hung sash. Italianate finishes include a dentil course under the cornice, roundhead windows in the gables,wide paneled cornerboards, and tabs under the window sills. A one-story three-sided bay on the front of the house also has a dentil course under the cornice and paired brackets. A window above the east entry has been filled in and the foundation to the left of this entry is fieldstone rather than brick. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet Discuss 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. Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1851 by John Davis, a merchant who had moved to Lexington from Charlestown. Davis sold the house in 1854,however, and it then had a number of owners, many of them non-residents, until it was finally acquired in 1878 by Hosea E. Holt, a music teacher who worked in Boston and in 1884 established a music school in this house. A note on a 1941 photograph of the house indicates that the owner in the 1930s had a small riding school on the property. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists. 1848-1853. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 538: 300; 693: 67; 763: 272; 819: 27; 1056: 416; 1318: 520; 1477: 477. Worthen, Edwin B. A Calendar History of Lexington, Massachusetts, 1620-1946.-Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Savings Bank, 1946. "Photographs, Houses"file. Worthen Collection, Cary Library, Lexington, MA. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.