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.ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) <br /> Rectangular 22-story hip roof. Console brackets supporting boxed cornice. <br /> 2 single dormers w/triangular front. Glen St. side has unusual dormer w/ <br /> chimney & small flanking windows . 6/1 double-hung sash with large lights. <br /> Full-width front porch. 5-panel door in small bay, leaded glass windows <br /> to each side. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history <br /> and how the building relates to the development of the community) <br /> This was one of the houses on Upland Road built speculatively by Abram C. <br /> Washburn, Lexington's most prolific local builder (see 4 Glen Road for <br /> more information about Washburn) . It was bought by the Misses Stratton, <br /> two sisters of the wife of Dr. Tilton, prominent local physician. A <br /> contemporary newspaper account describes the house as "a residence after <br /> the colonial style with rooms located either side of the attractive main <br /> entrance, . . . crowned by a hip roof which affords excellent rooms on <br /> the third story" (Minute Man, August 2 , 1895) . <br /> r t Mabe-1 JV&jhyi weit 011 A✓i IM <br /> .J <br /> l <br /> 1 <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Minute Man, August 2., 1895. <br /> 1906 map <br /> 20b1-2/80 <br />