HomeMy WebLinkAboutadams-street_0016 FORM B — BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
0063000080 Boston N. 698, 699
Town Lexington
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 16 Adams St.
Historic Name George Simonds Jr. House
' Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
7 - 1
1 � Lmn
` Date of Construction 1868
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
�E6 '
Exterior Material:
Foundation Brick
Wall/Trim Vinyl Siding
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn(garage)
Major Alterations(with dates)
Rear addition(date unknown)
Resided(1990s)
Condition Fair
N, � 'j Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 1 A:
ADAMS _�__ STREE Setting On a heavily-trafficked residential street in a
neighborhood of 19th-and early 20th-century houses with
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes later 20th-century infill
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) January 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
16 Adams St. (MHC#698) is one of several simple front-facing L-shaped Italianate cottages in Lexington and,while not as intact
as some,contributes to the group of 19th-and early 20th-century houses on lower Adams St. The original house is 1%Z stories
with a cross-gabled roof and a small end ridge chimney. It is on a brick foundation, sided with vinyl,and has an asphalt shingle
roof. The main entry is located in the re-entrant angle,the windows are 2/2 double hung sash, and a porch,also in the re-entrant
angle,has turned posts and cut-out brackets. The two-story shed-roofed rear addition is on a cement foundation. A small barn
(MHC#699) at the rear is front-gabled and retains its wood clapboards and sliding door.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the
role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community.
Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built by George Simonds Jr. (1838-1900) in 1868, for he had purchased
the land on which it stands in August 1867 and in May 1869 was assessed for a house on it. George Simonds Jr. had presumably
grown up in the house now at 185 Burlington St. (MHC#745), which was built by his father, and is identified as a carpenter in
1880 and 1890 Directories.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 628-29.
Lexington Directory, 1887, 1894, 1899.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1867-1869.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1034: 157.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.