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BUILDING FORM ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. 154 Pleasant St. is historically associated with the Federal house at 177 Concord Ave. (MHC 4553)but its many additions make its original form all but unrecognizable. The original house, on the west side of the present structure, is rectangular, one story, one-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a clipped gable and a concrete center chimney. It is partly on a fieldstone foundation and partly on concrete, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. On its east end is a side-gabled three-by-one bay addition with a ridge chimney; the enclosed main entry is in the reentrant angle. On the north side of the house is another addition on a concrete foundation; its asymmetrical roof extends as far as the east wall of the side addition and on its ground floor is a one- car garage and entrance for a residence with the address #44 Lawrence Ln. There is a well with a gabled cover in the stone wall on the north property line. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑see continuation sheet 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. Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1868 by Peter Wellington (1781-1869),who owned the large Federal house behind it, now at 177 Concord Ave. (MHC#553). The 154 Pleasant St. house was reportedly built for a Wellington daughter, perhaps Eliza(1828-1911),the only one of Peter's daughters who did not marry. The clipped gable is probably not original but may have been done to match the gables of the Federal house when they were clipped sometime before 1891. When the Federal house became the clubhouse for the Minute Man Golf Club in 1928, this house was reportedly used as the caddie's shack. After the golf course closed in 1952 and the surrounding area developed as a suburban neighborhood,this house was converted back to a residence. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 732. David Kilroy, personal communication 1998. Lexington Valuation Lists. 1867-1869. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.