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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 23 Revere St. (MHC#760)was built by one of Lexington's most prominent 19th-century builders,who usually erected high-style <br /> houses;this house, however,either never had or has lost any high-style finishes. The original house, set with its northwest gable <br /> end toward Revere St., is rectangular with a rear ell,two stories,three-by-one bays,and side-gabled with a ridge chimney. The <br /> rear ell is two stories,two-by-one bays, and front-gabled with a chimney on the southeast slope of the roof. The house is set on a <br /> granite foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the southeast end of the main block is a large <br /> three-by-one bay,two-story, side-gabled addition with a projecting center gable and a porch underneath;at its southeast end is a <br /> one-story enclosed sunporch with a railing on the roof. There is a overhanging second-story addition in the reentrant angle <br /> between the main block and ell. The center entrance on the facade of the main block is now enclosed;there is a secondary entry on <br /> the facade of the side addition; and windows are 6/6 double hung sash. Exposed rafter ends extend around the entire house. The <br /> front-gabled 1%Z-story one-by-two bay barn(MHC#761)has its original hay and barn doors. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was built in 1851 by David A. Tuttle, one of Lexington's most prominent 19th-century builders, for Benjamin F. <br /> Gleason. Although Tuttle usually built high-style houses,he also built some vernacular ones such as those at 21 Larchmont Ln. <br /> (MHC#764)and 410 Marrett Rd. (MHC#642). In 1875 this house was being rented by A. M. Tucker, a dry goods merchant <br /> from Charlestown who used it as a weekend hunting lodge and would soon build his own house on Massachusetts Ave. at what is <br /> now the corner of Forest St. Tucker was apparently in residence on April 19, 1875, for he later told of feeding hungry tourists <br /> who had come to Lexington to celebrate the centennial of the beginning of the Revolution and were wandering around looking for <br /> food, the town having long since run out of provisions. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 707. <br /> Tuttle, David Ainsworth. List of buildings erected in Lexington. Presented to the Lexington Historical Society, April 4, 1904. <br /> On file at Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, personal communication 1998. <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />