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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 7 DUNHAM STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2216 <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 /> Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 7 Dunham Street occupies a moderately sized lot that slopes up gently to the back of the property from the street. The building <br /> is set close to the street edge, bordered by a cobblestone retaining wall at the back property line. The yard is covered mainly <br /> with lawn, with a wide asphalt driveway in front of the house and a brick paved walkway to the front door and entrance on the left <br /> side elevation. <br /> The rectangular main block rises 1 '/2 stories above a raised basement, which is fully exposed at the street edge, to a front gable <br /> roof. Walls are clad with stucco with a single course of textured concrete block at the eaves, a low-relief stucco belt course <br /> separates the basement and main floors. The roof's deep soffits are sheathed with narrow wood boards. Window openings are <br /> trimmed with brick sills and lintels and typically contain 6/1 double hung sash. The half-story has 2/1 and 1/1 windows. A single <br /> interior chimney rises near the center of the building. <br /> The asymmetrical fagade has two single-bay garage doors at the basement level, with an offset main entrance door to the left <br /> that is framed with plain flat trim. Triplets of windows on the main level align with the garage doors below, while a single window <br /> is set off-center above the main entrance. Diamond-shaped tiles flank the window lintels on the main level. Two small windows <br /> are centered in the wood-shingled gable peak. <br /> The right side elevation contains a progression of triple, paired, and single windows that become shorter at the back end of the <br /> elevation. A small shed roofed dormer with two single windows is set towards the front of the roof slope. The left side elevation <br /> has a variety of single and double windows of different sizes and sill heights. A utilitarian basement door has plain wood trim. At <br /> the back of this elevation, a shingle-clad, side-gabled vestibule rises from a cobblestone foundation. This entryway contains a <br /> single leaf door facing the street, accessed by concrete stairs and a stepped, poured concrete cheek wall. The rear elevation <br /> appears to contain a hip roof dormer. <br /> Well preserved and maintained, 7 Dunham Street is an unusual example of stucco-clad housing in Lexington. Its vernacular, <br /> idiosyncratic design is further notable for its lively fenestration, brick window trim, concrete block and tile decoration, and integral <br /> basement garages that dominate the front fagade (anticipating post-World War II suburban housing). <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 /> Neither Dunham Street nor Utica Street, from which it extends, appears on town maps by 1906, and Dunham Street does not <br /> appear in the town directories through 1922. Development of the street was slow: only numbers 7 and 8, directly across the <br /> street, were identified here in 1945. The first known resident of 7 Dunham Street was Stephen Trebino (1886-1968), a self- <br /> employed mason, carpenter, and contractor; he may have designed and built the house himself. Born in Italy, Trebino appears <br /> to be living here in 1930 with his wife Catherine (both were born in Italy) in 1930. In 1920, Trebino was a widower living in <br /> Arlington with his brother-in-law; by 1930 he had re-married and the blended family included nine children in this house. The <br /> grown children here worked as a tailor, truck drivers, laborer, and porter. <br /> In 1945 and 1955, the house was occupied by Antonio Bacigalupo, a janitor, his wife Lena, Antonio's older brother, Andrew, and <br /> Louise Bacigalupo, possibly Andrew's wife. (In 1940, Andrew and Antonio were identified as farmers with their own farm.) Also <br /> living here in 1945 and 1955 were James Redmond, a defense worker and later town employee, his wife Mary (who seems to be <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />