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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This side-hall plan house has a high peaked turret, king post treatment <br /> in the gables and small porch with turned posts, cut out brackets and an <br /> interesting stick design filling in the porch eave. A large barn is attached <br /> to the house. Although built by the family of one of the primary developers <br /> of neighboring Bloomfield Street, and similar in scale and materials to the <br /> Bloomfield Street houses, this house is distinguished as the only in the area <br /> of the period to have a turret and as one of only two or three houses in <br /> Lexington to have decorative king posts. Abram 0. Washburn was the builder. <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 for George Smith Norris, older brother of Lexington <br /> developer J.L. Norris. G.S. Norris ran a dairy farm here and owned the <br /> property until after 1906. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 495-496. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 1887 Directory <br /> 1894 Directory <br /> LexinKton Minute Man, May 2?, too <br /> 0 0 -7 <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />
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