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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 1 VINE BROOK RD. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 1618 <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 /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 1 Vine Brook Road is a good example of eclectic early 20th century Colonial Revival domestic architecture. The 1 %2-story <br /> cottage is sheathed in wood shingles and a series of pedimented dormers punctuate the gambrel roof which displays projecting <br /> eaves. Character-defining features include the fanlit front entry, a three-sided bay at the west end of the facade and the <br /> decorative window with geometric tracery at the center of the fagade. The predominant window form has multiple lights in the <br /> upper sash and a single light lower sash. <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 /> Neither the house nor Vine Brook Road had been built at the time of the 1906 map which shows the land as being owned by <br /> Augustus E. Scott. Nor is there a house on this site at the time of the 1908 Sanborn map. <br /> According to deed records,the property was sold by A.E. Scott to Ezra Taft in 1914 (Book 3910,Page 419). A house was <br /> definitely in place by 1917 and is shown on the Sanborn map of 1918. It was sold by Fletcher and Ezra Taft to Beatrice Morse <br /> in 1918 (Book 4204,Page 273-4). <br /> Directories indicate that George V. Morse and his wife Beatrice were living here in 1918. He was employed as a lumber <br /> salesman in Boston. In 1930 the couple was living here with their four children and his mother. They were still here in 1942. <br /> Later owners included John and Mary Orcutt and Karsten and Nancy Sorensen(1975-2005). <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> Sanborn Insurance maps <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> 1906 map <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />