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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Cammunity: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CUM SSION Lexington 515 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 8 Marrett Road <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> - ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> The building exhibits a semicircular fanlight at the entrance door on the <br /> east side. The fanlight is so placed that its height exceeds that of the first <br /> floor ceiling, a solution to which rural carpenters of the period occasionally <br /> resorted when ceiling heights would not accommodate a full fanlight on the first <br /> level. <br /> The house retains Federal trim in the easternmost rooms: on the staircase, <br /> a balustrade with twisted balusters, mahogany newel posts and handrail, and <br /> scrolled, cut out decoration on the step ends; in the downstairs rooms, mantel- <br /> pieces with Adamesque floral garlands on the friezes, plain dado with molded cap <br /> and molded cornices. Finishes in the upstairs rooms are simpler versions of <br /> Federal trim. <br /> The ell appears to have been constructed in the first half of the nineteenth <br /> century. Between 1898 and 1906, the atlases indicate the house was moved back on <br /> the lot. <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />