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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON is VINE BROOK RD. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2279 <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> ff checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statementform. <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 Vine Brook Road occupies a small but relatively deep lot, with narrow side setbacks and a modest setback from the street. <br /> Maintained chiefly in lawn, the front yard is flat, and the land slopes down gently towards the back of the site. Foundation <br /> plantings, low hedges at the side property lines, and scattered small trees characterize the landscaping. A straight paved <br /> driveway extends down the left side of the house, while a brick-paved walk leads from the street to the front entrance. The <br /> building consists of a 2 story main block and a 1 '/2 story rear addition. <br /> The three by two bay main block rises from a raised basement to a side gambrel roof with no gambrel returns. The fieldstone <br /> foundation has deeply recessed joints. A long shed dormer extends nearly the full length of the facade. An exterior chimney <br /> rises along the right side elevation, and an off-center interior chimney rises from the back slope of the roof. Another exterior <br /> chimney is centered on the back wall of the rear addition. Walls are sheathed with wood clapboards and trimmed with plain sill <br /> boards and corner boards. Windows are typically 6/1 double hung replacement sash with narrow band molding. Louvered wood <br /> shutters are mounted on hinges and secured with S-shaped catches. <br /> The gabled and pedimented roof of a tall, narrow entry portico (a later addition) is supported on slender Tuscan posts; it is <br /> centered between paired windows to the left and a shallow, modern bay window to the right. In the dormer, a small center <br /> window is flanked by paired windows to each side. The front portico is accessed by fieldstone steps that have slate treads and <br /> wood railings with square balusters. <br /> The left side elevation of the main block contains a shallow rectangular projection with a single window towards the front and a <br /> pair of casement windows towards the back of the first floor, and two widely spaced windows above. The right side elevation of <br /> the main block has a center exterior chimney flanked by one window on each side on each floor. <br /> The rear addition extends across nearly the full width of the main block, with a gambrel roof surmounted by nearly full-length <br /> shed dormers on each side. Visible windows are mostly single. The fully exposed basement at the left side of the addition <br /> contains an offset entrance with a single-leaf door and a bracketed and pedimented hood. Spanning the back of the addition is <br /> a flat roofed porch with square posts and square balusters at the railings on both the first and second floor. <br /> 15 Vine Brook Road is a typical, well-crafted example of early 20th century suburban housing in Lexington. It is notable for its <br /> comfortable proportions, uncommon gambrel roof, window shutters, and the rustic stonework of its foundation. <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 /> 15 Vine Brook Road represents the early period of suburbanization in Lexington, in which infill development responded to the <br /> arrival of street railway service along Massachusetts in the first decade of the 20th century. Vine Brook Road appears to have <br /> been laid out, and development initiated, between 1906 and 1918. The street traversed previously open land through which the <br /> eponymous Vine Brook runs before it crosses Massachusetts Avenue. The 1922 directory indicates only three buildings on the <br /> whole of Vine Brook Road. By 1935, the entire north (Massachusetts Ave.) side of the road and the south half nearest to <br /> Waltham Street were developed. <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />
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