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BUILDING FORM (47 Bloomfield Street) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. Demonstrating marked similarities to 41 Bloomfield Street(MHC#483),the house at 47 Bloomfield Street is a 2 1/2-story dwelling with a complex, asymmetrical massing. The cross-gable building is sheathed in wood shingles with scalloped shingles at the top of the facade gables. It rests on a rubble foundation and is capped by an asphalt roof. The front gable is two bays wide and is fronted by an open deck with a turned balustrade. The line of the gable extends down to a projecting gable porch supported by Roman Doric columns. Underneath the porch the glass-and-panel front door is flanked by partial sidelights with lower panels. A tall brick chimney rises near the center of the front roof slope. Windows on the house include 2/1 sash on the first floor with a more complex upper sash upstairs displaying a border on all but the bottom. Cutaway corners are visible on the first floor of the west gable. To the east of the entrance porch the house steps back in two additional two-story stages which rest on a stone foundation-a hip-roofed section that is two bays wide and a single bay deep and a gable-roofed section on the end with cutaway corners on the first floor. HIS kORICAL NARRATIVE Desc ibe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building and the tble(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. Bloomfield Street was laid out in 1885. Information from historic maps indicates that this house was constructed sometime prior to 1889 when it is shown as being owned by J.M. Sampson. A brief mention in the Lexington Minute-man indicates that in 1885 Mr. Sampson bought two lots on Bloomfield Street(August 28, 1885). Five houses were being built on the street in March 1886 (Minute-man, March 19, 1886). Both.the 1898 and 1906 maps show that the house was owned by George L. Goulding. Goulding moved to Lexington in 1891. Directories indicate that George Goulding was living on Bloomfield Street as early as 1894 and lived here until about 1918. He was employed by the Bay State Towel Company in Boston. Note: The inventory foiin prepared for 41 Bloomfield Street(MHC#483)in 1984 which indicates that that house was constructed by J.M. Sampson and later occupied by George Goulding appears to be in error. It appears that the site of 41 Bloomfield Street was vacant in 1889. By 1906 the house was owned by R.W. Dickson. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates. Le#ngtonMinute-man, 12/4/1885; 9/10/1886; 3/19/1886. 1889, 1906 Atlases. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.