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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 18 BRIDLE PATH <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> The house at 18 Bridle Path is a simple two-story,hip-roofed dwelling set on a rubble foundation and sheathed in wood shingles. <br /> The first floor of the fagade is fronted by a single-story porch enclosed by continuous 6/1 windows. There are three unevenly <br /> spaced windows of the same configuration on the second floor of the fagade. All are modern units. There is a single-story <br /> addition at the rear. To the west of the house is a detached garage consisting of a gablefront bay with a shed extension to the <br /> west. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> Bridle Path is an old road, laid out by Eli Robbins in the early 19th century. It originally was a loop, starting on Pleasant Street <br /> and continuing to Massachusetts Avenue, opposite the lower end of Curve Street. <br /> This house was constructed in the early 20th century. It had not yet been built at the time of the 1906 map. The first known <br /> occupant was Thomas Rodgers who was living here by 1926 with his wife Amy. He was employed as a proofreader. The <br /> couple was still here in 1932. By 1942 it had been acquired by Ralph Banks. Ralph and Elizabeth Banks sold the property to <br /> Owen and Ruth Lafley in 1946. They retained ownership until 2006. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of Lexington, Massachusetts,vol. 2,p. 286. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. <br /> 1906 map <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />