HomeMy WebLinkAboutcedar-street_0028 FORM B — BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
50/190 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph
Address: 28-30 Cedar Street
f Historic Name:
M Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
w Date of Construction: 1892?
Source:
fill i- Style/Form:
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: fieldstone
Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
10,880
none
137.5' Major Alterations(with dates):
30 25 0 1 Date?—asbestos shingles
m
9
co0 190 lay
1
10,581 Condition: fair(due to siding)
■ 137.5' Moved: no x yes Date
167.1' 23 Acreage: 0.24 acre
c
189 o 24 Setting: mixed residential neighborhood
13,368
30A (a167.1
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 28 Cedar 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.
Constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century, 28-30 Cedar Street is a 2 %-story gablefront structure set on a mortared
fieldstone foundation. Despite the application of asbestos shingles many years ago, it retains a good level of integrity.
Projecting from the gabled fagade is a two-story,three-sided bay, capped by a pediment. Adjacent to the bay projection is a
single-story entrance porch supported by square posts with jigsawn upper brackets. An additional entry with gable door hood
supported by decorative brackets and exposed rafters is located at the rear of the south elevation. Windows on the structure
contain 6/1 sash.
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 house was constructed on land subdivided by E.M. Mulliken in 1892 (Plan Book 85,Page 12). The early ownership is not
known at this time. It was probably constructed as a single-family dwelling and later converted to two-family use.
By 1942 the house was occupied by Creighton Rourke. It was later owned by James and Melba Owens who sold it to Eleanor
Lofton in 1949 (Book 7397,Page 16).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
1906 map
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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