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Show property's location in relation Style Shingle Style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
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Approx. acreage 17000 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Suburban residential street; a
Organization Lexington Historical Commission mix of houses from the third cuarter of
Date March, 1984 the nineteenth century and the twentieth
century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
Pore frankly Shingle Style and slightly later than its neighbors on the
street, this building uses the gambrel roof encor.passing the second floor and
three-part windows as design features.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 50 BLOOMFIELD ST.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 484
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This house was constructed for Willard O. Armes in 1896 to replace an earlier house on the site which was destroyed by
fire on January 24, 1896. The fire,which originated in a new house being built by Mr. Armes in close proximity to the
dwelling he occupied, started in some barrels of lime. The fire destroyed the framework of the new house as well as the
existing house(Minute-Man, January 31, 1896).
On July 3, 1896 the Minute-Man reported that"the home of Mr. O.W.Armes, destroyed by fire last winter,has been
replaced by a pretty new house on the old site, on Bloomfield street". Later that same month,the newspaper reported that
"E.W. Glass is doing considerable of a job of grading in front of the places owned by E.A. Shaw and W.O. Arms, on
Bloomfield Street,which were destroyed by fire some months ago,but since have been rebuilt. Mr. Arms' house is a
picturesque and attractive structure and is nearing completion"(Minute-Man,July 31, 1896). The E.A. Shaw dwelling
appears to have been 44 Bloomfield Street, next door.
Willard Otis Armes(b. 1857)was a cotton broker and continued to occupy this house until about 1920. Fred I. Stone
owned and occupied the house from about 1926 until at least 1932. Mr. and Mrs.H. Webster Thomas were living here in
1942.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
Quite similar to dwelling at 183 Waltham Street(#455),built in 1895.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913,vol. 2,p. 13.
Lexington Directories, various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man, January 31, 1896; July 3, 1896; July 31, 1896.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass.
1898 Atlas.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
February 2009