HomeMy WebLinkAbouteast-street_0014 FORM B — BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10069000038 Boston N.I F__]J 707, 7
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 14 East St.
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film roll Historic Name George W.Wright House
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al photos Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1873
Source Lexington Valuation lists
� Style/Form Second Empire
r. Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
elation to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
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and Roof Asphalt Shingle
reels Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn,well house
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Major Alterations(with dates)
Rear addition, front and rear porches (dates unknown)
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Condition Good
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Moved ® no [:] yes Date
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e.sr •�: — Acreage 0.4_A.
Setting Set back from street on a rise across from a 1960s
condominium development
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date (month/year) March 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.
14 East St. (MHC#707) is one of the few Second Empire cottages in Lexington. The original house is square, 1'/z stories,two-
by-two bays, and has a hip-on-mansard roof with a side chimney. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards,
and roofed with asphalt shingles. The main entry, on the facade, is flanked by one sidelight. The 6/6 windows have projecting
surrounds, one of which, on the first-story facade, is supported by brackets. A full-width porch with turned posts extends across
the facade. A rear shed-roofed addition has an exterior chimney and a porch. The 1%2-story side-gabled barn(MHC#708) is clad
with clapboards, and the well house next to the driveway shields a well that has been capped with concrete.
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 1873 by George Washington Wright(b. 1843), for in May of
that year he bought the land on which it stands from his father and in 1874 was assessed not only for the land but also for a house
and barn. George Wright is listed in the 1887 Directory as a farmer and in subsequent Directory's as a driver for Lexington firms
that manufactured carbonated drinks. After his death the house was inherited by his daughter Bertha(b. 1878),and the present
owners,the McDonalds, acquired it from her about 1962.
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: 781.
Lexington Directory. 1887, 1894, 1899, 1906.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1873-1874.
Ann McDonald, personal communication 1998.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1267: 275.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.