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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. 19 Revere St. (MHC#758) is one of a number of Queen Anne farmhouses in Lexington but is distinguished by the existence of its associated barn. The house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2%:stories,three-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a side chimney in the ell. The two-by-three bay rear ell is flush with the southwest elevation of the house and set back on the northeast. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The main entry,on the facade,has a paneled oak door with a square light;windows are 2/1 and 1/1 double hung sash. Queen Anne details include the full-width porch with a spindle frieze and turned posts on the facade; a two-story bay,a three-sided one-story bay, and a stained glass window on the northeast elevation; and a hip-roofed dormer and a one-story five-sided bay with a dentil course at the cornice on the southwest elevation. The 1'/2-story four-by-three bay barn(MHC#759) is side-gabled with a ridge chimney. There is a hay door in a center gable but the barn door has been replaced by a garage door. The barn has windows on the southwest and northeast elevations and a picture window in a one-story shed-roofed addition at the rear. 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. Deeds and Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1899 by Albert F. Hitchings, a market gardener,when he moved to Lexington from Concord, for he bought the land without any buildings on it in November 1898 but was assessed for a house and barn on the parcel in 1899. Hitchings did not remain in Lexington very long, however;he sold the house in 1901 to the Rileys and they, in turn, sold it in 1916 to the Taylors, who had an estate and farm in the Larchmont Ln./Revere St. area with a big house on the hill south of Larchmont Ln. This house was part of the Taylor estate until 1934 when it was sold, along with Larchmont Farm (11 Larchmont Ln. [MHC#762]),to Alfred P. Tropeano, a relative of Joseph Tropeano,who had been the farm foreman. The Tropeano family still own the house. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists. 1897-1899. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge,MA. 2696: 49; 2886: 61; 3159: 79, 80; 4068: 28; 5802: 61; 6691: 204, 205; 13660: 634. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.