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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 14 Glen Rd. South is one of the most intact high-style Greek Revival houses in Lexington. The house is rectangular, 2'/i stories, <br /> five-by-four bays, and side-gabled with two tall chimneys near the edge of the front roof and a similar tall chimney at the rear,the <br /> elevation facing Glen Rd. South. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. <br /> On the north elevation is a two-story shed-roofed addition that has a one-story shed-roofed porch with a flattened arch entrance. <br /> The identical entries on the front and rear have transom lights and full-length sidelights;the long first-story windows on the south <br /> elevation are 6/9 double hung sash, other windows are 6/6. Greek Revival finishes include a full entablature around the entire <br /> house, creating a pedimented attic;paneled cornerboards with acanthus leaves at top and bottom; molded window heads with a <br /> cornerblock detail, and a hood over the rear(west)entry that has a full entablature supported by columns with Ionic capitals. The <br /> full-width porch on the front(east) facade has Italianate finishes: square, chamfered, pilastered posts, flattened arches, and a cut- <br /> out frieze with drops. To the right of the center entrance on this facade is a secondary entrance with a stained glass light. There <br /> are low shed-roofed dormers on the front and rear slopes of the roof The interior has several high-style finishes including <br /> acanthus leaf molding on the opening between the front and back parlors. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ® see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was originally on Massachusetts Ave. on the site of the present Edison Station—now the northwest corner of <br /> Massachusetts Ave. and Grant St. There had been an earlier house on the site, probably built in the second quarter of the 18th <br /> century by Amos Muzzey(1700-1752), which was later occupied by his son Amos (1741-1822)and grandson Amos (1766- <br /> 1829). After the death of the last Amos, his son, Benjamin Muzzey(1795-1848),who had been a merchant in Boston, returned to <br /> Lexington in 1830. For several years he and his family occupied the Amos Muzzey House only in the summer, returning to <br /> Boston in the winter, but in 1834 he moved the Amos Muzzey house to some land he owned on Waltham St.,now the northeast <br /> corner of Vine Brook Rd. where the house now at 52 Waltham St. (MHC#20) is located(see 40 Forest St. [MHC#6811 form), <br /> and built this house on the Massachusetts Ave. site. A memoir written by one of Benjamin Muzzey's granddaughters says that <br /> this house was built in 1835, probably true since she describes a dinner party held there on April 19, 1835,although Lexington <br /> assessors' records do not list a"new house"for Benjamin Muzzey until 1837, suggesting it was not finished until 1836. Benjamin <br /> Muzzey is described in the antiquarian history of Lexington as a"popular man"in town; he was on the school committee in 1831- <br /> 34, 1836, 1838, and 1840; a selectman in 1840, 1843, and 1848; a state representative in 1843; and a justice of the peace in 1846. <br /> He was also instrumental in bringing the railroad to Lexington,giving the land for the right of way through his farm in order to <br /> persuade other farmers that the railroad was not dangerous. He died suddenly at the Exchange Coffee House in Boston in 1848. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ® see continuation sheet <br /> "Amos Mpzzey House Gets Historic Tablet from DAR." Lexington Minute-man, 26 April 1951. <br /> Clippings book. "Muzzey House." Scrapbook of late 1940s–early 50s clippings from Lexington Minute-man. In possession of <br /> Nancy S. Seasholes, Lexington, MA. <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 480,482-84,486. <br /> Lexington Historical Society. Lexington. A Hand-book of Its Points of Interest, Historical and Picturesque. Lexington, Mass.: <br /> Lexington Historical Society, 1891. 40. <br /> ® Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />