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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 19 GRANDVIEw AVE. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 0 2223 <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 /> Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 19 Grandview Avenue occupies a small lot that slopes up gently from the street to the house and is maintained chiefly in lawn. <br /> The building is parallel with Grandview Avenue, although the beginning of that road has been bent away from its first three <br /> houses to meet Welch Road at a 90 degree angle. As a result, 19 Grandview has gained a deeper front setback and a paved <br /> parking area where Grandview Avenue once ran in front. A modern, dry-laid fieldstone wall defines the present Grandview <br /> Avenue frontage. A paved driveway extends along the right side of the property, and a walkway lined with paving stones leads <br /> from this driveway to the front entrance. The building consists of a 1 '/2 story main block with a compact rear appendage. <br /> Square-shaped, the main block rises from a fieldstone foundation to a steeply pitched, side gable roof with no returns. Walls are <br /> clad with artificial siding and trim. Windows typically have 2/2 double hung sash with flat casings and artificial trim. The front <br /> facade has a full-length screened porch across the first floor, composed of a hip roof, center entrance, and banded window <br /> openings. Inside, on the main block, a single-leaf, center door is flanked by a single 2/2 window on each side. The porch has a <br /> fieldstone foundation and fieldstone cheek walls flanking its poured concrete steps. <br /> The symmetrical left side elevation has two widely spaced windows on each floor. The right side elevation has one double-hung <br /> window and a triplet of casement windows on the first floor and two windows in the gabled half story. A two-story, cross-gabled <br /> ell projects from the back of this elevation. It appears to have a fieldstone foundation, indicating (if so)that at least the first floor <br /> of the ell may be early construction. A modern wood deck with square balusters at the railings is visible on the remaining part of <br /> the back elevation. <br /> 19 Grandview Avenue has lost historic integrity through the application of artificial siding and trim. It survives as an uncommon <br /> example of pre-suburban housing in an outlying area of Lexington, surrounded now by mostly mid-20th century ranches, capes, <br /> and Colonial Revival homes. The house is notable for its simple massing, unusually high and steep roof, and full-length front <br /> porch. <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 /> 19 Grandview Avenue is located southeast of the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and School Street, in an historically <br /> agricultural section of Lexington. Massachusetts Avenue was established in the 17th century as part of an early highway from <br /> Cambridge to Concord. Development of the section of the road west of Lincoln Street and the town center was sparse, <br /> however, until the beginning of the 20th century. School Street was laid out and had its eponymous school building by 1830. <br /> Grandview Avenue first appears in the town directories between 1906 and 1918. No road or building is shown here on the <br /> historic maps through 1906, although the form of the building suggests a late 19th century date. The first known occupants of 19 <br /> Grandview Avenue, in 1922, are thought to be Patrick J. Gilligan, a fireman, and his wife Catherine A (both born in Ireland). The <br /> 1930 census identifies Patrick and Catherine living on Grandview Avenue with three young children. The Gilligans continued to <br /> reside here until at least 1945, by which time Mr. Gilligan was retired. Subsequent occupants included David C. Cameron, <br /> employed in sales, and his wife Katherine, a teacher(1955, 1965). They were accompanied here in 1965 by Marcia J. <br /> Cameron, a student, and septuagenarian Emma Ryckarbs (sic). <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />