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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. 25 Maple St. is one of the best-preserved vernacular front-gabled Italianate houses in Lexington. The house is rectangular, 2'/2 stories, three-by-three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys. It is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a large front-gabled addition on a concrete foundation with a"garrison"overhang. On the east elevation is a three-sided two-story bay on a brick foundation. The main entry is on the facade; windows are 2/2 double hung sash. Italianate finishes include cornerboards, side frieze boards,eave returns, and square porch posts with curved brackets that create a flattened-arch effect. The detached two-car brick garage has a hip roof. 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. Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1863 by Isaac F. Redfield, a Boston lawyer who also owned the house now at 3 Ingleside Rd. (MHC#646) and the farm associated with it. Redfield had purchased the lot on which this house is located in 1863 and in 1864 was assessed for two houses—the one now at 3 Ingleside Rd. and this one,which had clearly been built in the interim. Redfield sold this house in 1865 and in 1891 it was purchased by George E. Worthen, a machinist,whose son, Edwin B.,became the treasurer of the Lexington Savings Bank and an antiquarian authority on Lexington history. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists. 1863-1866. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. 898: 70; 955: 541; 1067: 69; 2065: 245. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.