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Date c. 1840-1850
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Source stylistic analysis
Style Greek Revival
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Recorded by Anne Grady, ?Nancy S. Seasholes Setting Residential street near business
Organization Lexington Historical commission center; the earliest house on a street of
Date April, 1984 mostly last quarter of the nineteenth
• century houses.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is a simply-finished two-faraily house with a third living unit in
the ell to the rear. Entrances are marked by plain Greek revival frontispieces
on the right and left sides. Despite owners statement on a previous survey
form, no construction or map evidence indicates a building date before 1830.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This house was, for many years after this part of Forest Street was laid
out in 1850, the only house on this side of the street. The original lot
encompassed most of the land between Waltham, Muzzey and Forest streets, and
Park Drive. In 1853 the house was owned by an A. Farnum and in 1876 by a J.E.
Hodgeman, neither of whom appear in the Lexington genealogy. By 1889 the
house was owned by A.E. Scott, a lawyer who lived elsewhere in town, so
probably at that time the house was rented, and also by that year the lot had
been. reduced to about its present size.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1853 map
1876 map
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
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