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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house is larger, slightly more elaborate than the other houses <br /> built speculatively on Bloomfield Street. Features include a cross gable <br /> roof, several bay windows, and an expansive entrance porch with polygonal <br /> end decorated with turned posts and segmentally-arched frieze trim. <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 /> This was one of the few houses to be built on Bloomfield Street after <br /> adjacent Munroe Hill was opened up for house lots. Its size may reflect its <br /> builder, Abram C. Washburn's desire to match the more substantial houses being <br /> constructed on the new streets. Upon completion, Washburn sold the house to <br /> Henry Wood Lewis who worked as a clerk at Kidder, Peabody and Company in <br /> Boston. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, p. 12. Boston: <br /> Lexington Historical Society, 1980. <br /> Lexington Minute Dian, September 21, 1894. � <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />