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BUILDING FORM (27 Edgewood Road) <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the <br /> community. <br /> Designed by local Lexington architect Willard Brown and constructed in 1929, 27 Edgewood Road is representative of a <br /> phase of the Colonial Revival style in which designs were loosely based on historical precedents. The 2 1/2-story, side-gabled <br /> dwelling displays a Georgian-style entrance centered on the three-bay facade. Fronted by granite steps, the six-panel door is <br /> flanked by fluted pilasters and capped by transom lights with a plain frieze and pediment. The house is sheathed in wood <br /> shingles and rests on a concrete foundation with an asphalt-shingled roof. On either side of the entrance there is an 8/8 <br /> window with entablature lintel and shutters. On the second floor of the facade 6/6 windows without lintels extend to the <br /> eaves. The side elevations display a saltbox profile. On the east side of the house there is a gabled, screened porch with <br /> arched openings set above a lower level. Projecting from the west elevation is a single-story, side-gabled wing. Punctuating <br /> the facade is a door with adjacent 2 x 2-light window. To the west is a segmentally-arched surround with keystone filled with <br /> vertical board doors with iron strapwork. Still further to the west is a single-story garage displaying three elevated three-light <br /> windows on the front. <br /> The house is set atop a stone outcropping shaded by several large oak trees. <br /> HIST\ ORICAL 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. �S'e� 20 Mev-1 Gc S� <br /> AA HC 93h-;) <br /> This house was built in 1929 for Ronald and Velma Brown and designed by Lexington architect Willard Brown! The 1929 <br /> Lexington Valuation List assesses the heirs of Margaret G. Brown of Arlington for Lot 6 on Edgewood Road with an area of <br /> 27,500 square feet. In 1930 the heirs were assessed for a house valued at$7,500 on the same parcel, indicating it had been <br /> built the previous year. Directories indicate that Ronald D. Brown was employed by New England Telephone and Telegraph <br /> Company. The house was later owned by Ronald and Ethel Brown from 1976 to 1989. In 1989 the property was transferred <br /> to Margaret Christie. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Grady, Anne-A. "The Architecture of Willard D. Brown." Paper submitted to AM 785, Boston University, 1986. On file at <br /> Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, Mass. <br /> Lexington Assessors Records. <br /> Lexington Directories, various dates. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates. <br /> Sch�oenhut, Sarah Emily Brown to Anne A. Grady. Correspondence in possession of Anne A. Grady, Lexington, Mass. <br /> (Schoenhut letter 49). <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 />
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