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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. I Sunny Knoll Ave. (MHC#768) is a probably the most retardetaire Italianate farmhouse in Lexington, although the one at 290 Wood St. (MHC#696) is a close second. The house at 1 Sunny Knoll also still has its associated barn. The house is rectangular, 2'/�stories,two-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a ridge chimney. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a one-story flat-roofed addition. The main entry is on the facade;the 2/2 windows have hooded surrounds supported by brackets. Other Italianate finishes include the paired brackets under the cornice of the projecting bay and the eave returns and a two-story three-sided bay on the east elevation that has paired windows on both floors and diagonal clapboards between them. A wraparound porch has a roof supported by Tuscan posts set on a fieldstone wall. The P/2-story two-by-two bay side-gabled barn(MHC#769) is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with clapboards, and has original swinging barn doors. On its east elevation is a side-gabled addition with a center gable, ridge chimney, and a front extension over two swinging garage doors. 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,which appears to be an Italianate farmhouse,was actually not built until 1906. It is on part of what had been an 8.27- acre parcel that had been transferred a number of times in the late 19th century. Finally, in 1904 the large parcel was subdivided into smaller houselots. The one on which this house is located was sold in September of that year to Elizabeth F. White,the wife of Robert H. White,who was the superintendent of the Lexington Poor Farm, located at Cedar and Hill streets. The Whites apparently built this house in 1906, for they were first assessed for a house on the land in 1907. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet Lexington Valuation Lists. 1905-1909. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Plans. Cambridge, MA. 1384: 174, 176; 1771:423; 2116: 114, 118; 3059: 81; 3058: 397; 3120: 203; 3119: 352. Pl. Bk. 75, Pl. 17. ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.