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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 /> 20 Maple St. is one of the very few front-gabled Italianate houses in Lexington with an attached barn (another example is at 8 <br /> Fletcher Ave. [MHC#671 and 672]); it retains its original finishes but is in very poor condition. The house(MHC#649) is <br /> rectangular with a rear ell, 2%stories,three-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a side chimney. The two-by-one bay rear ell is <br /> hip-roofed with a side chimney. The house is set on a brick foundation,clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt <br /> shingles. The main entry on the facade is flanked by sidelights;windows are 2/2 double hung sash. In addition to the sidelights, <br /> Italianate finishes on the main block include side frieze boards, a distinctive staggered-block molding at the cornice of the <br /> projecting one-story bays and entry hood, and panels under the bay widows. At the rear of the ell two front-gabled structures <br /> connect the ell with the barn; the first is on a fieldstone foundation and the second on a concrete foundation with an exterior <br /> chimney. The 1'/z-story,gable-roofed barn(MHC#650)has a ridge chimney and a number of windows. <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 /> Deeds and assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1874 by Everett E. Smith (1827-1881), for Smith purchased the <br /> lot on which it is located in October 1873 without any buildings and in 1874 was assessed for a house, barn and two outbuildings. <br /> The house soon became associated with the farm behind it(see 3 Ingleside Rd.,MHC#646 form), for in 1882 it was purchased <br /> by Dr. Parker Kenison, who had bought the farm in 1880, in 1900 by George E. Lothrop, who purchased the farm that year, and <br /> in 1907 by Charles W. Ryder,whose wife had acquired the farm in 1906. Worthen, who grew up across the street, remembered <br /> Lester Tompkins,the farm foreman, living in this house when Kenison owned the farm. In the 1920s and 30s, when the Ryders <br /> owned this house and it was divided into front and rear residences, its tenants changed almost yearly and were sometimes people <br /> associated with the farm, such as the foreman, chauffeur,a farm hand, and a herdsman. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 646. <br /> Lexington Directory. 1922-1942. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1873-1874. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge,MA. 1281: 26; 1463: 564; 1588: 172; 2834: 498; 3302: 327. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington,Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 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 />