HomeMy WebLinkAboutbow-street_0099 FORM B — BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
20/85 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph East Lexington
Address: 99 Bow Street (at Winn Ave.)
Historic Name: Dionizia DeMarties (Demattis) House
Uses: Present: residential
r _ Original: residential
} — Date of Construction: c.1920
Source: directories
E Style/Form: Bungalow
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: concrete
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
NWN AT Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
shed
— Major Alterations(with dates):
70'I _ 0 c.2000—siding
m l date?— new windows
se. 85 Condition: fair(due to siding)
6,300 — Moved: no x yes Date
Acreage: 0.14 acre
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Setting: mixed residential neighborhood
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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 99 BOW STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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.
The house at 99 Bow Street is the best preserved of several similar modest,hip-roofed dwellings in this neighborhood(others
include 89 Bow Street and 107 Bow Street). Until recently,the house retained a clapboarded exterior; it is now sheathed in vinyl
siding. The steeply-pitched hip roof is sheathed in asphalt shingles and there is a hip dormer centered on the front slope. The
fagade is three bays wide with a shed-roofed porch sheltering the center entrance. The windows contain 1/1 replacement sash
and are flanked by shutters. A deck has been added on the south side.
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.
This property was part of the Massachusetts Avenue Terrace subdivision laid out by J.W. Wilbur in 1909 (Plan Book 182,Plan
8). This is one of several subdivisions that Wilbur,who lived in Brookline, developed in East Lexington in the early 20ffi
century. What is now Bow Street,was originally known as Wilson Avenue.
This house appears to have been constructed in the 1920s. The earliest known owner was Dionizia DeMarties who was living
here by 1930 with his wife Anarelda. (Census records list him as Dion Demattis and his wife Annie). The couple had
immigrated from Italy in 1897 and in 1930 their house was valued at$6000. Dionizia's occupation is listed as candy maker in
the local directory and as water department worker in the 1930 Census.
The current owners,William&Nora Savage,purchased the property in 1964.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,MA
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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