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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 /> 3 Ingleside Rd. was once a fairly high-style Italianate farmhouse, but has lost most of its original finishes. The present house is <br /> square, two stories,three-by-three bays, and hip-roofed with a side chimney. It is set on a granite foundation, clad with wood <br /> clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear a front-gabled extension leads to an attached one-car garage. The center <br /> entrance has transom lights and half-length sidelights and windows are 2/2 double hung sash. The roof of the full-width porch on <br /> the facade is supported by paired Tuscan posts. <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 built in 1856 by Albert W. Bryant, a Lexington blacksmith, as evidenced by the fact that in 1853 he had bought <br /> the land on which this house is located—at that time a 33-acre farm with a barn but no house—and in 1857 was assessed for not <br /> only the land but also for a new house as well as a new shed and a more expensive(probably new) barn. Historical photographs <br /> show the house as a three-by-three bay Italianate with a flat roof, a lantern, and wide overhanging eaves supported by decorative <br /> brackets. <br /> In the later 19th century the property seems to have been a gentleman's farm—it was owned from 1862 to 1868 by Isaac F. <br /> Redfield, a Boston lawyer, and was henceforth sometimes known as the Redfield Farm. In 1880 the farm was purchased by Dr. J. <br /> Parker Kenison, a chiropodist whose office was in Boston. According to Worthen, who grew up across the street and calls it the <br /> Kenison Place, Kenison raised pigs, built a large underground cistern on the hill behind the barns, and erected a windmill. <br /> Worthen says that the next owner was `:Honest Dave"Blanchard,a liquor dealer of the firm Blanchard &Farrar in Boston. <br /> Blanchard kept racehorses and built the huge barn near the railroad tracks that is prominent in historical photographs. The owner <br /> from 1900 to 1906 was Dr. George E. Lothrop, who lived in Boston. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Bobbie Laudani, personal communication 1998. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1853-1865. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. 656: 557; 894: 499; 1029: 581; 1538: 561; 2834: 493; 3233: 237. <br /> Sileo,Thomas P. "Then &Now: Whatever Became of the Ryder Farm." Lexington Minuteman, 12 December 1995. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. "Photographs,Houses, Kenison Farm." Worthen Collection, Cary Library, Lexington, MA. <br /> Tracing the Past in Lexington,Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 36-37. <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 />