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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 3 Dover Lane MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 _x_Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This house was constructed in 1950 by architect Hugh Stubbins,Jr. for Ralph and Caroline DiNunzio and is similar and located near the house Stubbins designed for his own family(6 Dover Lane). The house exhibits the influence of the International Style and was sited to blend in with the rural character of the property. It is capped by a flat roof displaying a considerable overhang. The main house block is rectangular in plan with a covered walkway leading from the front door to the carport. The structure rests on a cinder block foundation. Exterior walls are constructed of two by four studs and four by four posts which are sheathed with vertical tongue and groove boarding. Windows include casements and large fixed glass windows which are without trim. The setting of the house has been altered by the reduction of the original 3.3 acres to .76 acre. The wooded buffer which originally existed between the house and Pleasant Street has been lost due to the construction of new houses on this portion of the original lot. The house is now accessed from Dover Lane,which is lined by c.1985 houses. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 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. The land on which this house stands was sold by Marcel Breuer to Ralph and Caroline DiNunzio in 1950. Breuer had purchased the land on Pleasant Street with fellow architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr. (1912-2006)who built a house on his portion of the land for his own use(6 Dover Lane). Stubbins designed a house for the DiNunzios in 1950. The house included a two-car carport. There have been noadditions made to the house and it is still owned by the original owner. In 1985 the DiNunzios sold part of the original parcel of land to Boyd-Smith Development corporation which laid out a street on the land,now named Dover Lane. Hugh Stubbins graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1931 and was awarded the MArch by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1935. In the late 1930s he worked briefly with Royal Barry Wills. At the invitation of Walter Gropius, Stubbins taught for more than a decade during the 1940's and 1950's at the GSD; in 1954 he left teaching to devote himself to his architectural firm,which was to become a highly successful international practice. Stubbins is perhaps best-known as the architect of large-scale structures which have become recognizable landmarks in urban skylines: the Berlin Kongresshalle, Manhattan's Citicorp Building and Boston's Federal Reserve Bank. Stubbins is also widely recognized for his education-related designs,which range from a number of suburban schools to Harvard's Countway Library,Pusey Library and Loeb Drama Center(Harvard University, Stubbins Collection). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES DiNunzio, Caroline(current owner), information. September 2007. Hugh Stubbins Archive: The Early Years Collection, Special Collections Department,Frances Loeb Library,Harvard Design School,Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Collection has project and construction drawings for this house(A133)/Date(s): 1949/Quantity: 10 items in set Content: Architectural drawings: 1. Foundation Plan--2. Floor Plan-- 3. Elevations--4. Roof. Framing Plan— 5. Framing Elevations -- 6. Structural Sections--7. Sections and Full Size Patterns-- 8. Exterior Details-- 9. Interior Elevations -- 10. Details. Folder: B 133.01 Photostats and Other Small Scale Drawings : Dinunzio House/Date(s): 1949/Quantity: 1 item/ Dimensions: 10-1/2" x 16-1/2" /Medium: stat/Support: paper Note: Stat with exterior axonometric drawing of Dinunzio House,Lexington,Massachusetts, 1949. Ludman,Dianne M.,Hugh Stubbins and his Associates: The First Fifty Years, 1986. Middlesex County Registry of Deeds. Continuation sheet 1