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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This simple, side-hall building retains diamond-pattern shingles in the gables and in the soffits above the bay window, even though the rest of the building has been sided with aluminum. This building type is found all over Lexington, but this is the only example in the immediate area. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the de lopment 6f the community.) (b• IgS33 The house was built by Sidney Myron Lawrence, t e grandson of Phineas Lawrence who built the farmhouse at 3 Peacock Farm Road, and the son of Sidney whose farm was south of there in the area now covered by Route 2. All three were dairy farmers who helped to make Lexington one of the largest producers of milk in the Commonwealth in the nineteenth century. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 357. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. "The Milk Business and Milk Men of Earlier Days. " Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 187-196. Lexington: Lexington Histori- cal Society, 1900. 1830 map 1853 map 1875 atlas 1887 Directory 1889 atlas 1894 Directory 1898 atlas 1899 Directory 1906 atlas 1906 Directory 10M - 7/82