HomeMy WebLinkAboutgraham-road_0002 (Formerly 185 Burlington Street) FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10081000015 Boston N. L 745
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 185 Burlington St.
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Historic Name George Simonds House
s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1832
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Greek Revival
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
IFoundation Granite(front'/,), Fieldstone(rear '/,)
ISI to Wall/Trim Vinyl Siding
Roof Asphalt Shingle
� Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Tool shed
Major Alterations(with dates)
Rear addition (date unknown)
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Condition Fair
Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 0.7A.
`Q°"°M — Setting Close to a busy residential street near Route 128 in
;n r, a neighborhood of 20th-century houses
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) February 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
185 Burlington St. is one of three side-gabled Greek Revival cottages with wall dormers in Lexington (the other two are at 241
Grove St. [MHC#7481 and 79 North St. [MHC#7231)but is the least intact. The house is rectangular, 1'/z stories, five-by-one
bays, and side-gabled with two small ridge chimneys. The front three-quarters of the house is set on a granite foundation and the
rear quarter on fieldstone, it is clad with vinyl siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a one-story shed-roofed
addition on a concrete foundation. The main entry is in the center of the facade;there are eyebrow windows on the second stories
of the front and rear elevations and 2/2 windows elsewhere. The two side eyebrow windows on the facade have been carried up to
form gabled wall dormers. A very small tool shed is clad with vertical wood siding.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet
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.
Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1832 by George Simonds (1807-1892), for he had acquired 22
acres including the land on which this house is located in June 1830 and was assessed for a new house and barn in June 1833. In
1883 Simonds sold the house and lot, by then reduced to 9'/.acres,to Sanford H. Woodworth, who in 1884 would marry
Simonds' granddaughter Marion, daughter of George Simonds Jr.,who lived in the house now at 16 Adams St. (MHC#698).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 220, 628-29, 780.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1831-1833.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 298: 310; 1625: 524.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.