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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 56 Vine Street <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 1619 <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 /> Set on a hill above the street, 56 Vine Street is a vernacular Queen Anne-style dwelling which appears to date to the early 20th <br /> century. Resting on a stone foundation,the 2 'h-story structure consists of a side-gabled main block with a cross gable <br /> projecting from the east end. The fagade of the main block is fronted by a single-story porch supported by turned posts with <br /> decorative brackets and a turned balustrade. Under the porch the entrance consists of a simple doorway. The projecting gable <br /> has cut-away corners and cornice returns. The windows contain modern 2/1 sash and are used individually, in pairs and in sets <br /> of three. There is a small square fixed window with"Queen Anne"-style colored glass centered on the second floor of the <br /> fagade below a hip-roofed dormer. Other details include several single-story,three-sided bay windows. <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 /> There does not appear to be a house on this site at the time of the 1906 map. The first owner may have been Mary O'Brien who <br /> apparently owned the property in 1915 (Plan Book 240,Plan 22). By 1926 Florence Morrison was the owner(Book 5007,Page <br /> 81). The property was later owned by Joseph Swan, a real estate agent. Members of the Swan family sold the property to <br /> Murray Potter in 1982. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> Town Directories <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Continuation sheet I <br />