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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1006200017 Boston N. 714, 715
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 114 East St.
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film roll Historic Name Adam Peters House
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Original Residential
Date of Construction 1881
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
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xnd Roof Asphalt Shingle
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Major Alterations(with dates)
Window in front gable,greenhouse, rear additions, barn
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Condition Good
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Acreage 1.6 A.
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Setting Set back from a busy street across from a 1970s
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes condominium development of Georgian-style houses
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.
114 East St. (MHC#714) is a nice example of a front-gabled Italianate farmhouse that still has its associated barn and,despite
some alterations, still retains many of its original finishes. The original house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2'/z stories,two-by-
three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys. The rear ell is front-gabled,two stories, and two-by-three bays. The house
is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. A greenhouse has been added on the
east elevation, a one-story shed-roofed addition at the rear of the ell, and a one-story flat-roofed addition on a concrete foundation
on the west elevation. The main block has 2/2 or 1/1 double hung windows and a front entrance with a transom light and one
sidelight,the other sidelight having been replaced with an engaged Tuscan column. Italianate finishes on the main block include
three-sided bays on the facade and both side elevations,paired decorative brackets at the cornice,brackets under the projecting
surround of the front second-story window,panels under the bay windows, and a wide eave board in the front gable. A porch with
Tuscan columns extends across the facade and Tuscan columns also support the gabled roof over the side entrance of the rear ell.
The 1%2-story front-gabled barn (MHC#715) is on a brick foundation and has been converted to a studio. A garden shed at the
rear of the property has a tall chimney and one open bay for a vehicle.
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.
This house was built in 1881 by Adam Peters (b. 1843), whose family had come to Lexington from Germany in 1855,who had
lived in the house now at 49 East St. (MHC#709)after his father had moved it there in 1860, and whose sister Barbara had
married Timothy K. Fiske in 1857 and lived in the house now at 71 East St. (MHC#711). The 35 acres of land originally
associated with this house had been sold in 1868 to Adam's brother Peter, but the latter did not build a house and in 1876 lost the
property in a mortgage foreclosure to his brother Adam. Lexington assessors' record indicate that in 1877 Adam Peters built a
barn and an outbuilding on the farm and then, in 1881, this house. Lexington Directory's list Adam Peters as a milk dealer. The
house remained in the Peters family until 1925 and was acquired in 1934 by Oscar B. Kenrick, who raised market vegetables and,
later, nursery plants. The farm was subdivided in the 1960s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Guy and Elaine Doran, personal communication 1998.
Lexington Directory. 1887, 1894, 1899, 1901-02, 1906, 1908-09.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1868-1883.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1057: 225; 1392: 301;4886: 265; 5781: 444; Plan No. 851 of 1960.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
Lexington 114 East St.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 714, 715
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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