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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. 18 Revere St. (MHC#756) is one of a number of Federal farmhouses in Lexington though one of the few that still has a barn. The house is rectangular with a rear ell,two stories, five-by-two bays, and side-gabled with one rear chimney. The four-bay-long front-gabled two-story rear ell is on the same type of brick foundation as the main block. At the northwest end of the ell is a side- gabled two-story one-by-two bay addition on a newer brick foundation. The brick foundation of the original house is set on top of the original fieldstone foundation,the house is clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The center entrance surround has a wide frieze with a projecting molded cornice,pilasters,and full-length sidelights; a secondary enclosed entry is in the reentrant angle between the ell and addition; and windows are 2/2 double hung sash. The 2'/2-story,three-by-four bay front- gabled barn(MHC#757)has its original barn and hay doors and an attached a three-by-one bay one-story side-gabled shed at the southwest corner. 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. This house was probably built in 1812, for the son of the people who owned it from 1934 to 1983 remembers that"1812"was found scratched into the plaster in the southeast upstairs bedroom. It is not clear who built the house, however, for it was only possible to trace it in deeds back to 1839, at which time it was owned by a Joseph Eaton. In 1914 this house was acquired by the Taylors,who had a large estate in the Larchmont Ln./Revere St. area with a huge house on the hill south of Larchmont Ln., and remained part of the Taylor estate until 1934. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 385: 88;473: 240, 375; 657: 318; 695: 544; 706: 564; 915: 95; 984: 287; 996: 80; 3884: 84; 5802: 64. Philip Parsons Jr.,personal communication 1998. Crystal Ribich, personal communication 1998. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.