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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 15 SHIRLEY STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2263 <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 15 Shirley Street occupies a small flat lot, maintained chiefly in lawn with one large street tree and foundation plantings. Building <br /> setbacks are modest. A straight paved driveway extends along the left side of the house, and a concrete walkway extends <br /> between the sidewalk and front entrance. The building consists of a 2 '/2 story main block with a small rear extension and a <br /> detached garage. <br /> The three by two bay main block rises from a fieldstone foundation to a front gabled roof with gable returns and a small chimney <br /> centered at the ridgeline. Walls are sheathed with artificial siding; the second floor flares out slightly at its base, and the half- <br /> story flares out slightly above the second story on the fagade. Windows typically have 1/1 double hung sash, without trim. The <br /> facade is three bays wide with an offset doorway and a full-width, one-story porch accessed by wood steps. Turned posts and <br /> decoratively sawn brackets support the porch's low hip roof; a modern railing with square wood balusters lines the edges. A <br /> single window is centered in the half-story, abutted by a small, modern awning window. <br /> The right side elevation has irregular fenestration, with two windows on each floor. The first floor has two widely spaced <br /> windows, including a casement or sliding unit towards the back. The second floor has a square, Queen Anne sash with gridded <br /> panes near the center. The left side elevation has a single window and an angled bay window on the first floor and two widely <br /> spaced windows aligned above. A narrow, one-story extension across the back elevation has a gabled roof and, facing the left <br /> side of the lot, an offset single-leaf door and two single windows. <br /> Located at the left back corner of the lot, the garage is one story high with a hip roof, exposed rafter ends, and two individual <br /> vehicle bays. Its walls are constructed of small coursed ashlar blocks, and feature an exterior stone chimney on the right side <br /> elevation. <br /> Well maintained, 15 Shirley Street is a good example of modest, late Victorian suburban housing in Lexington. It is notable for <br /> its decorative front porch, flared wall surfaces, Queen Anne window sash, and the uncommon stone construction of its <br /> original/early garage. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> Shirley Street appears on the maps between 1898 and 1906; a handful of buildings, mostly along the south side, were standing <br /> along it in the latter year. All but one lot was developed by 1927, when the streetscape contained ten buildings (four of them <br /> side-by-side duplexes) and six garages. <br /> The house at 15 Shirley Street represents the early period of suburbanization in Lexington, in which development along Bedford <br /> Street was sparked by the re-building of the roadway and the arrival of street railway service here at the turn of the 20th century. <br /> George F. Tewksbury, a farmer who owned the land in this area in 1898 and 1906, is credited with developing the Hill <br /> Street/Tewksbury Street/Shirley Street neighborhood. <br /> 15 Shirley Street may appear on the maps as early as 1906; it is clearly here by 1927, with the garage. The first known <br /> occupants of the house are Robert A. McAdoo, a farmer, and his wife Mary J. (1922). In 1935, two families appear to be living <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />
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