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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 15 FERN STREET 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. Setback on a low hill, 15 Fern Street is a 2 %2-story, clapboarded dwelling dating to the late 19th century and displaying minimal Queen Anne style decorative details. It is oriented with its long elevation facing Fern Street and its gable front facing Pleasant Street to the east. It is set on a rubble foundation with a rectangular plan and an addition extending to the rear(north). The shed-roofed frpmt porch on the east end has a decorative raking,turned posts and a spindle frieze. The same decorative raking 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 molded surrounds. There is an angled oriel on the south wall,toward the front. 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. This house was constructed between 1875 and 1889. F. Buttrick is shown as the owner on the 1889 and 1898 maps. By 1907 the house had been acquired by William B. Foster who lived next door at 7 Fern Street. Foster was in the real estate business and was a Mason. He held various town offices—selectman, fire engineer,board of health, constable and chief of police—and was also a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. He also owned 3 Fern Street. Over the years the house (known as#11)was rented to number of tenants. The property was later acquired by Joseph Stoney who sold it to Albert&Alice Coyle in 1955. The Coyles owned the property for 20 years before selling it to Robert and Mary Sweet who sold it in 1995. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. Town Directories U.S. Census,various years. Continuation sheet 1