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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. 48-52 Lowell St. is one of a number of modest Federal houses in Lexington and is reasonably well-preserved. The original house is rectangular, 2%stories, five-by-one bays,and side-gabled with a rear chimney. It is set on a granite foundation,clad with wood clapboards,and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear are two additions: one,two-story and front-gabled on a fieldstone foundation ; the other, 1'/�-story and front-gabled on a concrete foundation. There are also a two-story, shed-roofed bay on a fieldstone foundation on the east elevation and a one-story, shed-roofed addition on a concrete foundation on the west elevation. The center entrance is flanked by sidelights that do not appear to be original;windows are 6/6 double hung sash. Perhaps the only original finish is a dentil course that extends across the cornice on the-facade. 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 is known as the Winship House and was probably built for Isaac Winship (1749-1834) sometime between 1798 and 1825. On April 5, 1825, Isaac's son Oliver(1794-1874)purchased all his father's real estate in Lexington, including the buildings. That same day a Thomas Winship,a cousin and probably the Thomas Winship who lived from 1766 to 1830, quitclaimed his right to Isaac's dwelling house that he had"joined and assisted"in building and in which Isaac was then living The Direct Tax of 1798 does not list a house for Isaac Winship, suggesting that his house was built after that date, so it is very likely that the house Oliver Winship bought in 1825 was this one and that it had been built by Thomas Winship for Isaac sometime between 1798 and 1825. It is, of course, possible that Oliver Winship built a new house on this site after 1825,but Lexington assessors' records do not indicate enough of an increase in the value of Oliver's' real estate to explain a new house—the value rose from$506 in 1830 to$626 in 1831 because Oliver had built a new barn, increased to$770.45 in 1832, and to $827.45 in 1839,the latter because he had acquired an additional three acres. The$144 increase in 1832 does not seem enough for a new house, further evidence that this is probably Isaac Winship's house built sometime between 1798 and 1825. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet Direct Tax of 1798. Microfilm. Cary Library, 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: 772, 773, 774. Lexington Valuation Lists. 1790s-1840. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 259: 456, 457. Shaw,Jim. "Busa Farms Continues A `Growing' Tradition." Lexington Citizen, July 1996. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.