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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> Even before alterations, this house was apparently more faithful to <br /> Second Period sources than other houses on beriar.i Hill within the Colonial <br /> Revival style. Historic photographs show that the house has lost some features <br /> and acquired others. The hip roof with pedimented dormers on each face was , <br /> originally embellished with balustrades between the dormers on the main facade <br /> and at the peak of the roof. The quoins and the quite archaeologically-correct <br /> frontispiece with segmentally-arched pediment pilasters and rustication are a <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was built in 1884 by George Henry Emery, a bookkeeper. By <br /> 1894 George Milne who was assistant treasurer of the American Telephone and <br /> Telegraph Company and served on the school committee and sewer and water boards <br /> of Lexinc-ton was the owner. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 188, 434. Boston: <br /> Houghton 2.;ifflin, 1913. <br /> Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, pp. 21, 23. Boston: <br /> Lexington Historical Society, 1980. p p <br /> Lexington Iinute Ilan, October 17, 1882. /� Z�j �0 Q� /71 �p#4 <br /> 10M - 7/8 <br />