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BUILDING FORM (6 Locust Avenue) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. Shaded by a large maple tree, 6 Locust Avenue is a 2 1/2-story dwelling displaying a first floor sheathed in wood clapboards with staggered butt shingles above. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation. The gablefront measures three bays wide with 1/1 sash and a smaller pair of 1/1 windows in the attic. The facade is fronted by a single-story porch supported by bulbous turned porch posts which are spanned by stick balusters. The sidehall entrance is marked by an enclosed vestibule with a multi-glass outer door framed by sidelights. The inner door is of a glass-and-panel configuration. The pediment marking the entrance is sheathed in vertical boards with a curved half-timber detail on the pediment and ends of the porch. The east elevation displays a large gable wall dormer and is fronted by a smaller gable projection with the same sheathing and foundation. The projecting gable is two bays wide on the upper level while the lower level displays a central window flanked by smaller windows on the cutaway corners. There is an additional cross gable on the west elevation and a single-story wing at the rear. A small rear porch has been added on the east side and is shaded by an arbor. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Describe 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. Thdhouse appears to have been constructed for Nelson Jenney as a rental property in the 1890s. In 1893 the P. Pierce heirs sold the land to Jenney and by 1894 he was assessed for a house on Locust Street. The Lexington Minute-man of June 29, 1907 reported that Mrs. Francis Buttrick had just purchased a house and land on Locust Ave. from Nelson Jenney and that the house was then occupied by the Clark family. Francis and Sarah Buttrick came to Lexington in October 1905. Directories indicate that the Buttrick family was living at 215 Mass. Ave. in 1906 but were at 4 Locust Avenue by the time of the 1908 directory. He was employed as a salesman and the family continued to live here into the 1950s when the property was conveyed to Marie and Verner Dempsey. The house was known as 4 Locust Avenue until the mid 1930s. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. Lexington Minute-man, May 12, 1893; 6/29/1907. Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates. )Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.