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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 119 GRANT STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 0 2225 ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 119 Grant Street occupies a large lot on a main thoroughfare in East Lexington. The land slopes down sharply near the street edge and then more gradually towards the back of the property and the adjacent Vine Brook. Maintained chiefly in lawn, the lot has foundation plantings and a paved driveway and gravel parking area to the right of the house. The house is set close to the street, with a straight paved walkway to the front entrance. The building consists of a 2 '/2 story main block, attached barn, and several side and rear additions. The rectangular main block rises from a stone foundation to a front gable roof with gable returns and a small interior chimney high on the right slope. Walls are clad with artificial siding and trim. Windows typically have 2/1 double hung replacement sash with no trim. The fagade contains an offset, single-leaf door with a half-height sidelight and two windows on the first floor, sheltered by a full-width porch with a hip roof and three simple turned posts. Above are two widely spaced windows on the second floor and one window centered in the attic story. The right side elevation is asymmetrical, with one typical window and a small angled bay window on the first floor and two regularly spaced windows above. A small connector to the attache barn is one-story high with a gabled roof and paired windows on the street fagade. The left side elevation of the main block has one window off-center on the second floor. A perpendicular gabled ell extends from the first floor on a raised basement. The one-story ell has a cross-gabled projecting bay with four casement windows centered on its front fagade and an exterior chimney centered on its end wall. The large attached barn rise 1'/2 stories from a poured concrete foundation to a front gable roof with gable returns. The fagade contains two vehicular bays with modern Colonial style trim on the ground floor and paired double hung windows with transoms centered in the half-story. Walls are clad with artificial siding and extend on both sides to low shed dormers that span most of the building's length. Fenestration is irregular, with single, paired, and triple window units and two single-leaf doorways in the outer bays of the right side elevation. A one-story addition extending from the back of the barn has a gable roof and paired windows on each side of a center door. 119 Grant Street is one of Lexington's increasingly uncommon early farmhouses, set close to a road that is now characterized by much later residential development. Although it has lost its original siding and most of its original detailing, the building is notable for its large land area, the relatively large scale and front verandah of the house, and the survival of its large barn. 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. Today's Grant Street is an accumulation of several roadways. The base of the street, between Massachusetts Avenue and Sheridan Street, appears between 1875 and 1889, when it provided convenient access to the Hayes estate on Meriam Hill. The short section between Sheridan and Hayes Lane appears between 1898 and 1906. The then-discontinuous stretch from Hayes Lane to Granny's Hill was established as part of Hayes Lane by 1853. Grant Street was extended between Granny's Hill and East Street between 1875 and 1898. By the third quarter of the 19th century, however, only a few buildings clustered near the base of Grant Street, near the important intersection with Vine and Woburn streets; two buildings were located north of Vine Brook, near Granny's Hill, in 1875. North of Vine Brook, development along Grant Street was extremely sparse through the 19th and turn of the 20th centuries. Continuation sheet I