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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 /> 29 Maple St. is an outstanding example of a large,well-preserved Colonial Revival house in Lexington. The house is essentially <br /> square with a small rear ell, 2'/2 stories, and hip-roofed with a ridge chimney at the intersection of the main block and the ell. The <br /> 2'/2-story,two-by-one-bay rear ell is also hip-roofed. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards,and <br /> roofed with asphalt shingles. The main entry, on the facade,has sidelights with elaborate leaded tracery;windows are 1/1 double <br /> hung sash. The house has many Colonial Revival finishes. The surround of the window in the large projecting front gable is <br /> formed by two Tuscan columns supporting a round arch with a serrated molding surmounted by a king-post detail in the pediment. <br /> There is a dentil course around the entire cornice,gabled dormers on the west and east slopes of the roof and in the rear ell,and <br /> three projecting three-sided bays—a two-story on the west elevation, second-story on the facade, and one-story on the east <br /> elevation. The hip roof is surmounted by a widow's walk and the porch roof by a balustrade that extends around the top of the <br /> east bay. There is a stained glass window over arched molding on the west elevation. The front-gabled two-car garage is on a <br /> concrete foundation, clad with vertical wood siding, and topped with a whale weathervane on a small cupola vent. <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 1904 by Henry H. Tyler(b. 1840)for his son Arthur S. Tyler(b. 1873). Henry H. was a son of Edward <br /> L. Tyler(1806-1864),who had built the house next door at 27 Maple St. (MHC#652). After his father's death,Henry H. Tyler <br /> lived in that house and ran a dairy business, which was joined by his sons Edward L. and Arthur S. Henry is described by <br /> Worthen,who grew up in the house at 25 Maple St. (MHC#651)as very hard-working but well-off, providing cornet lessons for <br /> Arthur and violin lessons for Ed. At the turn of the century the two sons acquired adjacent houses of their own—Edward's was at <br /> 31 Maple St. and Arthur=s this one at 29 Maple St. <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: 713. <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1903-1906. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington,Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 38-39. <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 />