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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 29 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 /> Set above a stone wall on the north side of Fern Street,29 Fern Street is a 2 '/2-story gablefront dwelling which is sheathed in <br /> clapboards and rests on a rubble foundation. The gablefront displays projecting eaves that end in returns and a smaller two-story <br /> gable projection with returns is located on the west elevation. The fagade is spanned by an unusual,two-level porch with hip- <br /> roofed hoods on the lower level sheltering a 2/2 window and a doorway. Above this is a sunporch enclosed by continuous 2/2 <br /> windows. A two-story addition extends to the east of the porch. Windows include a mix of original 2/2 sash and modern 1/1 <br /> units. A single-story hip-roofed bay at the rear shelters another entrance. <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 /> The early history of this property is somewhat unclear. The 1898 map does not show a house on the land. A 1902 Plan(Plan <br /> Book 137, Page 46)indicates that the house was then present, owned by Maude E. Sim(wife of William Sim). The 1906 map <br /> also shows the house present but indicates it was still owned by the Isaac Buttrick estate(also shown as the owner of the land on <br /> the 1889 map). There is no apparent familial relationship between the Buttricks and the Sims. William Sim was a carpenter and <br /> according to the 1910 Census,was living on Mass. Ave. <br /> Fred and Mabel Longbottom were living here(then 23 Fern Street)by 1922. He was a carpenter. The property was sold to Miss <br /> Harriet Shaw, a teacher,prior to 1928 and she sold it in 1944. It has been owned by Albert Whitcomb since 1945. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of Lexington, Massachusetts,vol. 2,p. 619. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. <br /> 1898, 1906 maps <br /> Q� <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />