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Lexington
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�6 Chandler Street
c Name James Perrott Prince House
iginal Residence
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Private organization
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j - •iginal owner
Draw map showing property's DESCRIPTION:
!J location in relation to nearest
A cross streets and other buildings Date 1891
or geographical features.
Indicate north. Source Lexington, Iviinute Tian, Oct. 16, 1891
Style Colonial Revival
O Architect John McKay, builder
Exterior wall fabric white clapboard w/bk
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Outbuildings shutters
small garage
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Q i Major alterations (with dates)
Moved Date
Approx. acreage ,4 (16356' )
Recorded by Audrey R. MacCarey- Anne Grady Setting Meriam Hill; residential, street
Organization Lexington Historical Comm. of substantial late nineteenth century
Date 4-14-76; March, 1984 houses on ample lots.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and
evaluate in teras of other buildings within community)
Original dk red - recessed front door w/sidelights - leaded glass window
over door - small window at right w/leaded glass upper covered with flat
roofed porch - dentiled cornice, supported by 4 round doric columns,
half column at house. Lacy double windows 6 over 2 at right, single
window left and 6 sided, 1 story flat roofed bay w/dentils, 3 windows-
third floor front gable, overhang at 2nd story supported by brackets -
palladian window w/fan-fluted pilasters - small rear ell - double dormer third
floor rear, single dome 3rd floor sides - 1 chimney left side
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history
and hog, the building relates to the development of the community)
James P. Prince was a lawyer in Boston. He is an example of the sort
of individual who settled on the newly developed Meriam Hill in the 1880s and
1890s, intent upon living in pleasant country surroundings but close enough
to the depot to commute easily to work in Boston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 548. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Qq
Lexington Minute Man, October 16, 18911 AA" (S
1906 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCI+ffSSION Lexington 396
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 6 Chandler Street
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
Except for the one-story polygonal expansion at the left front corner,
this house is fairly faithful in form to its Colonial sources. 4Wi1r�ow place-
went is, however, subtly asymmetrical and the three-part window/semicircular
fan above in the pedimented gable is only an allusion to a palladian window,
rather than an actual one. A contemporary newspaper gives the following
description of the building and its builders:
John McKav is about completing the house . . . being
built for J.P. Prince, Esq. and which is a gem in style
of architecture and workmanship reflecting much credit
on the builder and also the Lexington lumber yards
which furnished the lumber and the handsome auarter oak
for the beautiful interior finish. The house is in
pure colonial style and has a most pleasing outward
appearance, while its inside is exceptionally gratifying
from its artistic scheme of decoration, the detail of
the work being substantial and yet elegant and in the
best of taste. Scott is finishing the work with a full
corps of efficient assistants.
(Lexington Minute Man, October 16, 1891)
Staple to Inventory form at bottom