HomeMy WebLinkAboutbridle-path_0018 FORM B — BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
22/62 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph East Lexington
Address: 18 Bridle Path
k Historic Name: Thomas Rogers House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
' Date of Construction: 1925
f,
IB` Source: directories
Style/Form: Four Square
v Architect/Builder: unknown
t Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
,e
garage
42
6. Major Alterations(with dates):
Date?— rear addition, enclosure of front porch, new
�-e windows
3� 4,
Condition: good
Moved: no I x I yes Date
Acreage: 0.38 acre
Setting: uphill from Pleasant Street on old, narrow
residential lane
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 18 BRIDLE PATH
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 18 Bridle Path is a simple two-story,hip-roofed dwelling set on a rubble foundation and sheathed in wood shingles.
The first floor of the fagade is fronted by a single-story porch enclosed by continuous 6/1 windows. There are three unevenly
spaced windows of the same configuration on the second floor of the fagade. All are modern units. There is a single-story
addition at the rear. To the west of the house is a detached garage consisting of a gablefront bay with a shed extension to the
west.
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.
Bridle Path is an old road, laid out by Eli Robbins in the early 19th century. It originally was a loop, starting on Pleasant Street
and continuing to Massachusetts Avenue, opposite the lower end of Curve Street.
This house was constructed in the early 20th century. It had not yet been built at the time of the 1906 map. The first known
occupant was Thomas Rodgers who was living here by 1926 with his wife Amy. He was employed as a proofreader. The
couple was still here in 1932. By 1942 it had been acquired by Ralph Banks. Ralph and Elizabeth Banks sold the property to
Owen and Ruth Lafley in 1946. They retained ownership until 2006.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of Lexington, Massachusetts,vol. 2,p. 286.
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
U.S. Census,various years.
Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998.
1906 map
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