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BUILDING FORM (7 Dexter Road) <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the <br /> community. <br /> This two-story brick Tudor Revival house is unusual for its symmetry and for its roof form which can be described as a <br /> broad clipped gable or hip-on-gable. The tapestry brick veneer incorporates decorative patterns including a herringbone <br /> pattern adjacent to the entrance, decorative squares centered between the first and second floor openings, brick sills and a <br /> brick water table. The center five-sided, projecting open entry porch with arched entry resembles a guardhouse and is flanked <br /> on each side by a set of three 6/6 windows. The second floor facade windows consist of pairs of 6/6 sash with a smaller <br /> window centered over the entrance. The garage door on the north end of the facade is capped by transom lights and is <br /> balanced on the other end of the facade by what appears to have been an open porch, now filled with clapboards and a pair of <br /> windows. Punctuating the side slopes of the steeply-pitched, asphalt roof are wood-shingled hip dormers, one containing a <br /> single window while the other contains four 3/3 windows with vertical panes. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Describe the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building and <br /> the,,role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> Dc�ter Road was laid out in the early 1920s by a developer known as the Lexington Building Trust(the plan is dated 1923). <br /> By 1926 there were four houses on the street. The house at 7 Dexter Road was constructed in 1926 for Albert W. and Helen <br /> Emmons. The Town Valuation List published April 1, 1926 indicates that the house was then unfinished and the Emmons <br /> were living in Watertown. Directories list Albert Emmons' occupation as credit manager and later lawyer. The Emmons <br /> continued to live here until about 1938 when they moved to Kennebunk, Maine. It appears that the Emmons rented the house <br /> out for several years but had sold it by 1945. Later occupants included Alvin and Maynard Fernald and Edna Skelton in <br /> 1950. Peter Oppenheim purchased the property in 1963 and remained here until 1971. The present owners, Jane and Peter <br /> Franks, purchased the property in 1974. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Directories, various years. <br /> Lexington, Town of. List of Persons, various years. <br /> Lexington, Town of. Valuation Lists. Assessors' Office, Town Hall, Lexington, Massachusetts. <br /> S*born Map Co. Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1887, 1892, 1897, 1903, <br /> 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935. Microfilm. <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed <br /> National Register Criteria Statement form. <br />