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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 49 East St. is probably a Federal house with some later Greek Revival/Italianate finishes. The original house is rectangular, 2'/Z <br /> stories, five-by-one bays, and side-gabled with two small ridge chimneys. It is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood <br /> clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The center entrance has a pedimented surround with side pilasters and full-length <br /> sidelights. The windows on the facade are 2/2 double hung sash and those on the second story are framed into the cornice;the <br /> windows on the gable ends are new casements. At the rear is a recent two-story gable-roofed addition. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> According to Worthen,this house was built by a David Fiske on or near Burlington St. and was moved to this location before the <br /> Civil War. Worthen surmises that the house was built by the David Fiske who lived from 1759-1820 but it could also have been <br /> built by his son David,who was born sometime between 1789 and 1793 and was married in 1820. Worthen goes on to say that <br /> sometime before the Civil War a grandfather of William E. Fiske, a son of Timothy K. Fiske who built the house at 71 East St. <br /> (MHC #711), bought this house when it was on Burlington St.,took it apart, moved it, and reassembled it on this site. Worthen is <br /> probably right, for the lot on which this house is located was purchased in 1856 by John Peters (1806-1886), a German who came <br /> to Lexington in 1855 and whose daughter Barbara married Timothy K. Fiske in 1857,thus making Peters the grandfather of <br /> Barbara and Timothy's son William E. Fiske. If Peters did move the house he did so in 1860, for he is first assessed for a house <br /> on this lot in 1861. It was probably at the time of the move that the present Greek Revival/Italianate doorway and small ridge <br /> chimneys were installed. After her father's death in 1886,this house was owned by Barbara Peters Fiske and remained in the <br /> Fiske family until 1944. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 214, 215, 217, 524. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1854-1861. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 738: 187; 6816: 558. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned, torn down, and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. CaryLibrary, <br /> Lexington, Mass. <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />