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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 15 FERN STREET <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <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 /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> Setback on a low hill, 15 Fern Street is a 2 %2-story, clapboarded dwelling dating to the late 19th century and displaying minimal <br /> Queen Anne style decorative details. It is oriented with its long elevation facing Fern Street and its gable front facing Pleasant <br /> Street to the east. It is set on a rubble foundation with a rectangular plan and an addition extending to the rear(north). The <br /> shed-roofed frpmt porch on the east end has a decorative raking,turned posts and a spindle frieze. The same decorative raking <br /> also decorates a gable dormer on the south side and the rear porch(not original?). Most of the windows contain 2/2 sash set into <br /> molded surrounds. There is an angled oriel on the south wall,toward the front. <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 /> This house was constructed between 1875 and 1889. F. Buttrick is shown as the owner on the 1889 and 1898 maps. By 1907 <br /> the house had been acquired by William B. Foster who lived next door at 7 Fern Street. Foster was in the real estate business <br /> and was a Mason. He held various town offices—selectman, fire engineer,board of health, constable and chief of police—and <br /> was also a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. He also owned 3 Fern Street. <br /> Over the years the house (known as#11)was rented to number of tenants. The property was later acquired by Joseph Stoney <br /> who sold it to Albert&Alice Coyle in 1955. The Coyles owned the property for 20 years before selling it to Robert and Mary <br /> Sweet who sold it in 1995. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />
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