HomeMy WebLinkAbouteustis-street_0001 FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM NO.
N 489
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
rn Lexington
_ �. tress 1 Eustis Street
# � ;toric Name Irving Stone House
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� Present residential
Original residential
)ESCRIPTION:
Le c. 1885
Source map research
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style _ Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles, clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings carriage house
Major alterations (with dates) enclosed
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porch added, right front (c. 1920)
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�{ Moved _Date
Q Approx. acreage 13750 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street developed
Organization Lexington Historical Commission primarily in the 1870s and 1880s; there
Date March, 1984 is some later infill.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is one of the Bloomfield Street houses which retains its original
distinctive exterior finish of rows of patterned shingles in the gables (in
this case staggered butt shingles and V-shaped shingles) and clapboard walls
below. Also still present is the original decorative treatment of the
fascia of the raking eave. The carriage house is one of four to survive in
this development.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
By 1894 the property was owned by Irving Stone, a trustee of the
Lexington Savings Bank.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1875 atlas
1889 atlas
1894 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 1 EUSTIS STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 489
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
A brief notice appeared in the Lexington Minute-man on August 31, 1888 regarding this house:
Mr.Norris has sold his house off Eustis street to Mr. Irving Stone, of Cambridge,who will move here and occupy
the same about the first of October.
Stone lived here until his death in October 1917.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various years.
Lexington Minute-man,August 31, 1888.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009