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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This house is part of an architecturally cohesive street on which most houses were built in the 1880s. This house is embellished with Queen Anne features: a polygonal corner porch with conical roof, turned posts, stickwork trim, and entrance door placed diagonally at the corner of the house; a bay window; and a shed dormer accented with patterned shingles. This house is a mirror image of the one at 23 Bloomfield Street. An historic photograph shows that this was one of the houses on the street which had a carriage house originally. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The first owner of this house was named Mathews. The current owner discovered the inscription "John Lord, Freedom, N.Y October, 1884" written under a clapboard, This might be the name of one of the carpenters who built the house. By jRo2. the house was owned by Dwight Foster Kilgore, a mechanical engineer, who served as sewer and water commissioner of Lexington. In the early 20th century, tkB cement block structure at the right rear of the property is listen as the Kilgore Machine Company machine shop on maps. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 342. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, p. 12. Boston: Lexington Historical Society, 1980. Personal communication from Martin Gilman. 1918 Sanborn map 10M - 7/82