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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This side-hall-plan cable-to-the-street Vernacular house is noteworthy <br /> for the decorative treatment of the gable. Rows of staggered butt and other <br /> patterned shingles are separated by an area of clapboards set on a diagonal. <br /> Although patterned shingling, Particularly in the gable, is characteristic of <br /> Bloomfield Street area houses of the 1880s, this house employs it the most <br /> imaginatively. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was owned from 1885 until after 1906 by Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, <br /> missionary and educator, and Bloomfield Street's most distinguished resident <br /> in the late nineteenth century. Harlin had been head of Bebek Theological <br /> Seminary in Constantinople from 1839 to 1860; founder and builder of Robert <br /> Colleae, Constantinople, and president iron, 1860 to 1876; professor in the <br /> Bangor Theological Seminary from 1887 to 1880; and President of Iiiddlebury <br /> College from 1880 to 1886. He was the author of "Among the Turtles," "Ey <br /> Life and Times," and of many articles in periodicals (Hudson, 11:264) . <br /> Rev. E.G. Porter of the Hancock Congregational Church in Lexington became <br /> acquainted with Rev. Hamlin in missionary circles and was instrumental in <br /> persuading him to settle here when he retired. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. history of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 b,- the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, n. 264. Boston: <br /> Hourhton "ifflin, 1913. <br /> 1887 Directory <br /> 1675 atlas <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />