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BUILDING FORM (335 Marrett Road) ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the community. Located near the intersection with Waltham Street, 335 Marrett Road is a two-story,hip-roofed dwelling constructed in the early 20th century. The clapboarded house is outlined by simple comerboards with short beams decorating the underside of the overhanging eaves. The truncated hip roof exhibits eaves which are flared slightly. Spanning the main facade is a single- story porch supported by four Roman Doric columns with a turned balustrade set above a wooden deck with a latticed airspace and wooden steps. The offcenter entrance contains a six-panel door(not original). On one side of the entrance there is a three-sided bay window and on the other there is a single window; all contain 1/1 sash. On the second floor of the facade the window placement is reversed and the windows retain their original sash configuration, with a three-sided bay window consisting of a 6/1 and two 4/1 sash set above the individual window and an individual 8/1 window located above the first floor bay window. A hip dormer containing an 8/1 window is centered on the front and side elevations. On the east side of the house there is a two-story,three-sided bay window. Remaining windows consist primarily of 8/1 and replacement 1/1 sash. There is a small stained glass window on the west side. The rear porch at the northwest corner of the building has been partially enclosed in recent years but retains a single turned post. To the west of the house is a small clapboarded garage, capped by a hip roof. There is an overhead garage door facing the house and 8/1 windows lighting the side elevations. T ?form of this house displays some similarities to that at 35 Meriam Street(MHC#386), 1 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Describe 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. The early owners of this house are not known although it appears to have been constructed c.1910. There is no house on this site at the time of the 1906 map. By 1926 the property was owned by William Hinckley, an insurance agent, and his wife Grace. The property was owned by the Hinckleys into the 1940s and during their ownership it included a house,garage and hen house. In 1944 Clifford and Helen Ells owned the property. The present owners bought the house in 1993 from Alan Jick. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Lexington Assessors Records. Lexington Directories, various dates. Lexington Valuation Lists,various dates. Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attached a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.