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FORM B — BUILDING K 444
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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nev toric Name Tinos Muzze- ?douse
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DESCRIPTION:
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Style Second Period
Architect
Exterior wall fabric
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates)
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33 > fro:: :ass 1:.•e anE E(Hso_ tai, (site of Faison
i1 n(7) to corner of 1 ' an St and vine
ove! --rook r0• fr . latter ate 1024: 1694
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Approx. acreage 16LL20 ft.
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Recorded by Anne Grad-, I.ancv S. Seasholes Setting residential street; houses to
Organizationl,exinc-ton Historical Corr.ission the west built after 1920; houses to the
Date Tnril, 1904 east built in the late nineteenth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
It is difficult to be certain how m..uci of the finish of this house dates
from its early Second Period construction date. The overall plan and Profile,
small window size, and grouped window placement appear to be original.
Perhaps the molded window caps and the pilasters of the doorway are also
eighteenth century features.
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 originally stood on : assachusetts Avenue at the corner of
Edison Way, the site of the present Edison building. This was also the site
of the first house in Lexington, which was purchased in 1693 by Benjamin
Iuzzey (1657-1732) . Iluzzey was one of the earliest settlers of the town and
owned a large amount of land in the center: it was frog him that the land was
purchased for the second meeting house. After Benjamin's death, the house was
owned bN7 his son Amos (1700-1752) and it was probably during the latter's
ownership that the original house was replaced by this one, hence its name the
"Pmos 1=zey house. " The house was next owned by Amos' son, also named Amos
(1741-1822) , who served in the Revolution. This house was one raided by the
British on April 19, 1775: on their return from Concord the British entered,
broke windows, a mirror, china, dressed their wounded in the parlor, and
fired three bullets into the walls (they were recovered durinq an 1815 repair
of the house) .
In 1834 the Muzzev far;ily built a new house on the Massachusetts Avenue
site and this house was moved to the south side of 17altham Street at the corner
of what is now Vine Brook Road. For forty nears during the nineteenth century
it was owned by Isaac Huffnaster. Finally, in 1890 Bradley C. W-hitcher bought
the property, roved this house to Forest Street, and built a new house on the
Waltham Street lot. After its relocation it was apparently owned b;7 William F.
Glenn, the carpenter who owned the house at 38 Forest Street (see form) .
- BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
+"Aros iduzzey House Gets Historic Tablet from DAR." Lexington linute Man,
April 26, 1951.
Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, Pp. 477-476, 480-481,
- 482. Boston: Hou(*hton Mifflin CoraPany, 1913.
Lexington I•iinute I4ian, n.d. "Iluzzey House." In clippings scrapbook in
- possession of Elizabeth Reinhardt.
Worthen, Edwin B. "Notes rude in 1941-42." Worthen Collection, Card;- Memorial
Library, Lexington, IQassachusetts.
1906 map
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