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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 OAKLAND STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 1169 ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 10 Oakland Street occupies a small triangular lot that rises steeply from left to right through the site, creating a fully-exposed basement on the left side of the building. The yard is maintained mostly in lawn at the front and right side, with mature trees scattered throughout, foundation plantings adjacent to the building, and a wooded back yard. A concrete walkway leads from the street to the right side of the building. A straight, paved driveway crosses the left side yard at a diagonal. The approximately square building rises 1'/2 stories above a fully-exposed basement on the left side to a hip roof with deep eaves and a hip-roofed dormer centered on each slope. One chimney rises above the right slope. Walls are stucco with wood sill boards. Trimmed with wood band molding, windows have 6/1 (on the left side) and 9/1 (on the right side) double hung sash, with diamond-paned sash common in grouped windows. The three-bay fagade has an 8/1 window on each side of a shallow center entrance vestibule, which features angled corners and a period door with wood and glass panels. Recessed below the front slope of the roof, a full-length porch has a solid concrete foundation and semi-open half-walls of faux-stone concrete blocks, surmounted by sturdy Tuscan columns and a shaped stucco fascia. On the left side elevation, a shallow, projecting rectangular bay window towards the front contains a tripartite window with all diamond-paned sash and surmounts a one-bay garage door. Two single windows are set towards the back of this elevation on the main floor. The right side elevation displays four slightly asymmetrical windows and has concrete steps accessing the end of the porch. Well maintained and well preserved, 10 Oakland Street is a small scale yet unusually inventive example of Bungalow design in Lexington. It is notable for its characteristic Bungalow form, stucco cladding, idiosyncratic use of concrete block, carefully- developed porch, varied fenestration, and integral garage. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss 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. Part of the Merriam Hill neighborhood, 10 Oakland Street represents the infrequent, early 20th century infill on the south slope of the hill. These houses were typically modestly scaled and ornamented, scattered amongst much larger and more elaborate residences. 10 Oakland Street appears to have been built between 1910 and 1918. The first known residents, in 1918, were Samuel E. Brown (1885-1964), an artist with a studio in Boston, and his wife Florence I. The Brown family, which also included two young sons, lived here at least through 1922. Subsequent residents included George Hauman, another artist, and his wife Doris C. (who lived here with a young son from at least 1930 through 1940); Walter W. McCoubrey, who was in the Army, and his wife Mary(1945); and William H. Kilpatrick, a dentist, and his wife Jane (1955 and 1965). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards 1733-1990. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Continuation sheet I