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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This is an interesting example of a carpenter-designed late Greek Revival <br /> house which incorporates some features of the Italianate Style. Isaac Buttrick <br /> chose a simple side-hall plan structure with rather vertical proportions and <br /> the gable oriented toward the facade, a typical vernacular profile for its c. <br /> 1852 construction date. Perhaps because of his familiarity with up-to-date <br /> features as a carpenter, Buttrick added rustication on the first level of the <br /> facade, three-quarter-round moldings at the front corners of the building, <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was built by Isaac Buttrick, a carpenter who moved to Lexington <br /> from Concord in 1830 possibly under the influence of Isaac Melvin, architect, <br /> who came to Lexington from Concord about that time. Melvin designed the East <br /> Lexington Branch Library in 1833 and Buttrick was one of the carpenters who <br /> built it. East Lexington was enjoying a building boom in the early 1830s and <br /> surely Buttrick worked on some of the many houses of that period built along <br /> Massachusetts Avenue and elsewhere. <br /> The property remained in the Buttrick family until 1907; was then owned <br /> by George RE nolds; next by Maud Needham who sold off house lots in 1925; and <br /> after 1961/t e current owners. <br /> In the early 1900s the area was a truck farm. Italian day laborers came <br /> out from Boston by streetcar. Tomatoes were grown and the farm extended to <br /> the top of Moon Hill. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume IV, p. 118. Lexington: <br /> Lexington Historical Society, 1912. <br /> Research by Anne Grady in possession of the owner. <br /> 1853 map <br /> 1875 atlas <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1898 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />