graham-road_0002 (Formerly 185 Burlington Street)

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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 185 Burlington St. is one of three side-gabled Greek Revival cottages with wall dormers in Lexington (the other two are at 241 Grove St. [MHC#7481 and 79 North St. [MHC#7231)but is the least intact. The house is rectangular, 1'/z stories, five-by-one bays, and side-gabled with two small ridge chimneys. The front three-quarters of the house is set on a granite foundation and the rear quarter on fieldstone, it is clad with vinyl siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a one-story shed-roofed addition on a concrete foundation. The main entry is in the center of the facade;there are eyebrow windows on the second stories of the front and rear elevations and 2/2 windows elsewhere. The two side eyebrow windows on the facade have been carried up to form gabled wall dormers. A very small tool shed is clad with vertical wood siding. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet Discuss 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. Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1832 by George Simonds (1807-1892), for he had acquired 22 acres including the land on which this house is located in June 1830 and was assessed for a new house and barn in June 1833. In 1883 Simonds sold the house and lot, by then reduced to 9'/.acres,to Sanford H. Woodworth, who in 1884 would marry Simonds' granddaughter Marion, daughter of George Simonds Jr.,who lived in the house now at 16 Adams St. (MHC#698). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 220, 628-29, 780. Lexington Valuation Lists. 1831-1833. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 298: 310; 1625: 524. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.