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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 21 Hastings Rd. was once a high-style Italianate house but has been altered almost beyond recognition. The present house is rectangular, 2%2 stories, six-by-three bays, and is side-gabled with a rear chimney. Its foundation is not visible, it is clad with vinyl siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. On the east elevation is a screened porch;on the west is a two-story,two-by-two bay side-gabled addition with a rear chimney and a garrison overhang. A side-gabled two-car garage is attached to this addition. At the rear a large shed-roofed wall dormer is over a part of the house that has been extended beyond the original rear wall, an exterior chimney has been added to the original house next to a rear entry,and behind the side addition is a one-story flat-roofed addition with a bay window. Almost the only original finish remaining on the main block are the long first-floor windows; the broken-pediment entry surround with fluted pilasters is new and probably so is the incised groove-and-pinwheel design on the front frieze board. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ® see continuation sheet 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. This house was built in 1847 by David A. Tuttle, one of Lexington's most prominent 19th-century builders, for Daniel Chandler (1788-1847),who had served in the War of 1812 and then been the superintendent of various Boston asylums—the Farm School on Thompson's Island, the House of Industry, and the House of Reformation. He died suddenly just before he was to move into this house. Daniel was a brother of Samuel Chandler,who in 1846 had built the high-style Italianate villa with a tower now at 8 Goodwin Rd. (MHC#101)and this house was reportedly an exact duplicate of that one. Although it is hard to believe in this incarnation, a ca. 1930 etching of this house shows that it did indeed once have a four-story tower. The tower was apparently located where the entry is now and the main block of the house extended four bays west of it, as the house still does; there was also a small two-story ell at the west end of the house,though of course without the present overhanging second story. East of the tower,the house was set back and had a wraparound porch that extended out to the line of the main block. It is not clear from the etching whether this house had as many elaborate Italianate finishes as does the one at 8 Goodwin Rd.,but the tower had a frieze under the cornice, perhaps similar to the frieze now on the facade, roundhead windows on the top story, and a second-story balcony similar to the balconies at 8 Goodwin Rd. There were long windows on the first floor, as there still are, and flattened arches between the square, bracketed posts of the wraparound porch. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ®see continuation sheet Clippings book. "Chandler, Samuel, Daniel." Scrapbook of late 1940s–early 1950s clippings from Lexington Minute-man. In possession of Nancy S. Seasholes, Lexington, Mass. Hall, Emily. Etching of the Kimball House. Copy in possession of S. Lawrence Whipple, Lexington, MA. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 102. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1454: 553; 1946: 598; 2428: 246; 3293: 225. [] Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,.you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.