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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 33 MAPLE STREET <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> The house at 33 Maple Street is a 2 'h-story, side-gabled structure,unusual for the bowed,two-story front projection. The fagade <br /> is fronted by a single-story porch/porte cochere supported by turned posts with a turned balustrade and spindle frieze. The main <br /> entrance has a glass-and-panel door and there is a diamond-paned fixed window to the side. Windows include a mix of 2/1 sash <br /> and 1/1 replacements. The house is sheathed in artificial siding and there is a single-story addition at the southern corner. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house appears to have been constructed in the early 20'I'century. The land is shown on a plan of a houselot owned by H.D. <br /> Bradbury in 1897 (Plan Book 197,Plan 8). Mary C. Turner purchased several pieces of land from C. Wellington in 1902, 1903 <br /> and 1905. There appears to be a house on this site at the time of the 1906 map which indicates that it was then owned by Mary <br /> C. Turner. She was married to Frederick W. Turner. Mary Turner died in 1909 and Fred died early in 1910. <br /> By 1913 the house was occupied by Charles Van Alstine, a Boston optometrist, and his wife Minnie. The couple was still living <br /> here in 1942. <br /> The property was later acquired by the Follen Church Society which conveyed it to Mary and Michael Chessman in 1968. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> 1906 map <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />