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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL. CCWSSION Lexington 4.90 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: 11 Percy Road Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Hotel, and a number of churches. Kelley also designed several houses in the Back Bay and on Bay State Road. He worked in the prevailing eclectic idiom of the late nineteenth century, moving easily from Richardsonian Romanesque, through Queen Anne to Colonial Revival. This handsome house is a splendid example of the exuberance of design possible to the eclectics. It draws upon characteristics of both the earlier Queen Anne and the emerging Colonial Revival styles. The barrel vaulted, pedimented entrance portico, supported by slender columns, leads to a generous door flanked by sidelights and fanlight of ornately leaded glass. The domin- ance of the central element is emphasized by a railed balcony at the second floor level, surmounted by a dramatic dormer two windows wide with a broken scroll pediment. Beneath the apex of the scroll is a delicately carved garland. All these details are reminiscent of the mid-eighteenth century. A "contemporary" touch is found in the tower-like mass which thrusts forward to the left of the central salient, surmounted by a conical roof, a design element typical of the late nineteenth century. Mr. Sherburne's glass business is made evident in the large panes of curved glass, one as much as 4 feet by 6 feet in dimension, found in the first floor bays. Other devices of interest include the carved garlands in the dormer pediments, the carved brackets at the cornice, and the restrained used of stained glass in the palladian window to the rear of the house. The interior is as generous and eclectic in conception as the exterior. The stained glass fanlight and sidelights of the hall entrance door and the "living hall" treatment of fireplace, seat and elaboratively carved stairs are completely in the Queen Anne tradition. The tiles around the hall fire- place may have been done by Low of Boston, one of the earliest art tile companies in America. However, other details, such as the McIntire inspired treatment of the living room and bedroom fireplaces and the molded plaster pattern of the walls in the hall relate directly to the eighteenth century. The harmonious mingling of these disparate elements has created a country house of charm and elegance. Staple to Inventory form at bottom