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BUILDING FORM (33 Brandon Street) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. Resting on a brick foundation, 33 Brandon Street is a 1 1/2-story side-gabled Bungalow which is sheathed in wide wood clapboards on the first floor with wood shingles above. The asphalt-shingled roof displays overhanging eaves which are supported by triangular braces on the equilateral side gables and exposed rafters on the lateral eaves. The front and rear full- width shed dormers are wood shingled with the same triangular braces. Emerging from the rear roof slope is a brick chimney with a concrete cap. Projecting from the facade,the full-width, shed-roofed porch is two bays wide and is now enclosed with continuous 1/1 windows separated by pilasters resting on a wall. Underneath the porch the sidehall entrance is flanked by sidelights. The adjacent tripartite window consists of a central 6/1 window flanked by 4/1 sash. Remaining windows consist of 6/1,paired and individual as well as 3 x 2-light sash. The side porch displays a glass-and-panel door. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. Lobated walking distance from the East Lexington Railroad Station,this house was constructed in 1925 for John and Elisabeth Kenego. The 1925 Lexington Valuation List assesses John Kenego of 70 Clarendon Street in Somerville for lots 112 & 113 in the ELA(East Lexington Associates) subdivision. The following year the list includes an assessment for Elizabeth Kenego at 16 Brandon Street for a house valued at$4500 and the same two lots totaling 7,582 square feet, confirming the construction of the house. Directories indicate that John Kenego was employed as a floorlayer. The Kenegos continued to occupy the house until the late 1930s. Later owners of the house included Marshall Boyer in the early 1940s,Henry and Louise Connor(c.1960-70), John and Hilde Heaton(1970-1975), Jeffrey and Marilynn Albert(1975-1978), and James and Susan Clawson(1978-1981). The present owners purchased tri property in 1981. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. L .xington Valuation Lists, various dates. Sanborn Maps of Lexington, 1927, 1935. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.