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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 63/50 BNorth 1551
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph Upper Meriam Hill
Address: 7 Berwick Road
Historic Name:
a ' s Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Date of Construction: c.1910
Source: maps, visual inspection
Style/Form: Craftsman Colonial
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: aluminum siding
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Topographic or Assessor's Map garage
Major Alterations(with dates):
Date?—siding, alt. to sunporch, deck, rear add.
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o,° °0 Moved: no I x I yes Date
Acreage: 0.32 acre
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): May 2008
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 7 BERWICK ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Incorporating elements of the Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles, 7 Berwick Road is a two-story,hip-roofed dwelling
sheathed in aluminum siding and set above a rubble foundation. The asphalt-shingled roof displays overhanging eaves with
exposed rafter tails. The center entrance contains a paneled door flanked by sidelights and is sheltered by a pedimented entrance
porch supported by two pairs of attenuated posts. On either side of the entrance is a set of three windows. The upper story of
the fagade is punctuated by three individual, double-hung windows containing 8/1 sash. To the west of the main house block is a
single-story porch which has seen the introduction of new fenestration.
To the east of the main house is a detached garage dating to the early 20th century garage.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
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.
The house at 7 Berwick Road(known as 16 Berwick Road until about 1935)was constructed on land(lot 63 and part of 64)that
was part of the Oakmount Park subdivision, initially laid out in 1903. There was no house on this site at the time of the 1906
map. The earliest known owner was Clarence Collieson who was living here in 1920 with his wife Genevieve and their three
daughters. Collieson was born in Canada and was the president of a leather company. By 1930 the house was owned and
occupied by George and Katherine Pumpelly. The house had been acquired by Edward and Elizabeth Washburn by 1968.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. —Plan Book 145,Page 3.
Sanborn Insurance Maps
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
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Uses: Flmsenl, residential
Originate: residential
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Source: raps,visual inspection
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Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation. rubble
..u, .v...W 'A'allff'rimaluminum siding
Roof asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
T€attnrn�hc crrsenr' �a ..m garage
Major AItcrationq f",ith datesr
Date?-siding,alt_ to sunporch,deck,rear add.
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Condition. fair(due to siding)
Moved: an xxr
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Acreage: 0-32 acre
Settings early 2¢ury residential neighborhood
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Organization: Lexington Historical C mission
Date(month l e arj_ May 2008
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET TOWN ADDRESS
Lexington 7 Berwick Rd.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 _.
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION continued
The house was designed by Willard D. Brown of Lexington, who was the architect of at least sixteen houses in the
Merriam Hill area, The house at 7 Berwick Road was identified as Brown's work by comparison of its design to plans of
unknown houses in the Willard Brown collection in the Lexington Historical Society Archives. Brown designed similar
houses in Craftsman or Colonial styles in Lexington and elsewhere in the early 20th century.
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Plan of the house at 7 Berwick Road identified from an unlabeled plan in the
Willard Brown Collection in the Archives of the Lexington Historical Society.
REFERENCES continued
Willard Brown Collection. Lexington Historical Society Archives, Lexington, Massachusetts.
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