HomeMy WebLinkAboutbloomfield-street_0064 FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM NO.
N 486
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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SOurceLexington Minute Man, Sept. 21, 1894
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Show property' s location in relation Style Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect .,, Washburn, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric aluminum siding
Indicate north.
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Approx. acreage 17736 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting On a rise at the corner of
Organization Lexington Historical Commission Bloomfield Street and Highland Avenue;
Date March, 1984 residential streets developed primarily
in the late nineteenth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is larger, slightly more elaborate than the other houses
built speculatively on Bloomfield Street. Features include a cross gable
roof, several bay windows, and an expansive entrance porch with polygonal
end decorated with turned posts and segmentally-arched frieze trim.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This was one of the few houses to be built on Bloomfield Street after
adjacent Munroe Hill was opened up for house lots. Its size may reflect its
builder, Abram C. Washburn's desire to match the more substantial houses being
constructed on the new streets. Upon completion, Washburn sold the house to
Henry Wood Lewis who worked as a clerk at Kidder, Peabody and Company in
Boston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, p. 12. Boston:
Lexington Historical Society, 1980.
Lexington Minute Dian, September 21, 1894. �
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCAR,fISSION Lexington 486
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name:.8 Bloomfield Street
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