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" APCH17-ECI'URAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> Set on a brick foundation near many mid-nineteenth century workers cottages <br /> and small houses, this house has lost most of its exterior finishes and might, <br /> except for its profile, appear to date from the same period as its neighbors. A <br /> few remaining interior finishes, however, are Federal in character: the narrow <br /> three-run stair; the wide board dado; and the Federal fireplace with a molded, <br /> mitered surround and a broad frieze with lateral panels. The house is currently <br /> being renovated and the doorway has recently been changed: a hood with brackets <br /> has been removed and new Federalesque pilasters added on either side of the door. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> This house originally stood on the farm of Deacon' James Brown, which was <br /> located on the east side of Massachusetts Avenue at the intersection of Marrett <br /> Road. It may be the house described as originally being two stories, unfinished <br /> inside, framed with oak, and having diamond-shaped window glass, but if so, <br /> nothing about the house now would indicate a seventeenth or early eighteenth <br /> century core consistent with these features. About 1830 it was remodeled, Bryant <br /> states, and moved to the front of the Nunn estate, then located in the fork <br /> between Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett Road on the property now occupied by <br /> the Museum of Our National Heritage. Sometime between that year and 1876 it was <br /> moved to Woburn Street, for it is shown in its present location on the 1876 map. <br /> In that year and on subsequent maps it was owned by someone named Davis who is <br /> not listed in any of the Directories, so he was presumably a nonresident landlord <br /> and the house was occupied by tenants. <br /> Moved: (1) from Deacon James Brown farm (east side of Massachusetts Avenue at <br /> Marrett Road) to Nunn estate (fork of Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett <br /> Road) (1830) ; (2) from Nunn estate to this site (before 1675) <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Bryant, Albert W. "Lexington Sixty Years Ago," 1890. Proceedings of the <br /> Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 47-48. Lexington: Lexington <br /> Historical Society, 1900. <br /> Worthen, Edwin. Notes Made in 1941-1942. No. 57, Worthen Collection, Cary <br /> Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. <br /> 1876 map <br /> 1889 map <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> 10x1 - 7/82 <br />
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