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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 28 Cedar Street <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 /> Constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century, 28-30 Cedar Street is a 2 %-story gablefront structure set on a mortared <br /> fieldstone foundation. Despite the application of asbestos shingles many years ago, it retains a good level of integrity. <br /> Projecting from the gabled fagade is a two-story,three-sided bay, capped by a pediment. Adjacent to the bay projection is a <br /> single-story entrance porch supported by square posts with jigsawn upper brackets. An additional entry with gable door hood <br /> supported by decorative brackets and exposed rafters is located at the rear of the south elevation. Windows on the structure <br /> contain 6/1 sash. <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 /> This house was constructed on land subdivided by E.M. Mulliken in 1892 (Plan Book 85,Page 12). The early ownership is not <br /> known at this time. It was probably constructed as a single-family dwelling and later converted to two-family use. <br /> By 1942 the house was occupied by Creighton Rourke. It was later owned by James and Melba Owens who sold it to Eleanor <br /> Lofton in 1949 (Book 7397,Page 16). <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> 1906 map <br /> Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />