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FORM B - BUILDING N 4.81
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
_ ?n Lexington
cress 30 Bloomfield Street
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DESCRIPTION:
ate c. 1872-1875
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SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style mansard
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Date
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\\,\x Approx. acreage 18750 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Suburban residential street; a
Organization Lexington Historical Commission mix of 1870s and 1880s houses and
Date March, 1984 twentieth century infill.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
The most elaborately embellished house on Bloomfield Street, this house
is noteworthy for its distinctive bay window treatment. A sunburst and
lattice design surmounts the first level of the bay. Brackets at the eaves
and at dormer windows are made from several thicknesses of wood with different
urofiles so that they appear carved.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Unfortunately, no information has turned up about the builder of this
unusual house. The owners heard it was built as a summer residence bV an
Italian or Viennese consul, but this has not been confirmed. Horace Babcock
.:avis o;.ned the building in 1875. He was town assessor from 1876 to 1889.
By 1 Irving P. Fox, a publisher in Boston, owned the building.
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r,red J. F-Dx 1,0 1930
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 162.
Boston: Houghton Mlifflin, 1913.
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