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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> The most elaborately embellished house on Bloomfield Street, this house <br /> is noteworthy for its distinctive bay window treatment. A sunburst and <br /> lattice design surmounts the first level of the bay. Brackets at the eaves <br /> and at dormer windows are made from several thicknesses of wood with different <br /> urofiles so that they appear carved. <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 /> Unfortunately, no information has turned up about the builder of this <br /> unusual house. The owners heard it was built as a summer residence bV an <br /> Italian or Viennese consul, but this has not been confirmed. Horace Babcock <br /> .:avis o;.ned the building in 1875. He was town assessor from 1876 to 1889. <br /> By 1 Irving P. Fox, a publisher in Boston, owned the building. <br /> 1 I M,�'. rvX WAC Th I I h\411\411 h�e,� ►M l q Zf <br /> r,red J. F-Dx 1,0 1930 <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 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 162. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mlifflin, 1913. <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />