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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house has one of the finest towers in Lexington. Projecting from the <br /> facade more than a half circle, the tower has a nearly free-standing conical <br /> roof with very gentle bell shame and a copper finial at the ton. A one-story <br /> porch with balustrade above extends across the facade and culminates in a <br /> semicircular projection on the right-hand side. A palladian window embellishes <br /> the cable end. The house is fortunate to retain its original finishes including <br /> clapboards shaped to the curve of the tower. <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 by PaviC`. A. Tuttle, prolific local builder, for <br /> Robert Parker Clapp, a iawver. Pierian Hill was developed in the 1880s and <br /> 1890s by the new, more wealthy residents of Lexington, many of whoa, like <br /> Clapp, commuted to Boston to work. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> David A. Tuttle, manuscript list of houses he built, 1904. Lexington Historical <br /> Society Collections. <br /> (, r� {� M ✓►�}�-1lil r 1 6 19, 10"00 �D, 190'7. <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />