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1 B - BUILDING Area Form no.
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION
a Lexington
ss 6 Glen Road
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_Original residence
- T3: Present residence
ship:[ Private individual
Private organization
Public.
- Jriginal owner
Draw map showing property's DESCRIPTION:
N location in relation to nearest
cross streets and other buildings Date c. 1894
or geographical features.
Indicate north. Source Lexinaton Minute 1•,an, Aug. 2, 1895
Style Shingle Style
OArchitect
OExterior wall fabric green wood shin-le
yellow trim
OOutbuildings 2-car garage
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Major alterations (with dates)
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JQ a Moved Date
o� Approx. acreage .2 (91211)
Recorded by Henry V. Taves; Anne Gr dy_ Setting Residential street of late nine-
Organization Lexington Historical Comm- teenth century houses; slightly more modest
Date 6/24/80; March, 1984 in scale than those on the rest of Meriam
Hill.
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.ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within community)
24-story end gambrel w/octagonal wing - left front corner.
Simple entrance porch w/trellis; door w/sidelights w/circular tracery.
8/2 or 6/1 double-hung sash. Oval window in shed dormer, right side.
A modest Shingle Style cottage with its original finishes intact, this
is one of the few houses of its style on predominantly Queen Anne and Colonial
Revival Ideriam Hill. There is a course of pediment-shaped elements at the
eave of the bay window.
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 a G.-414e -- d were owned in 1906 by Aril A.
Wetherbee who worked in Boston. The house was described in a newspaper account
as "a pretty cottage home occupied by Mr. Wetherbee on grounds adjoining the
Hayes estate. The house is of a picturesque style with a gambrel roof and
pillared piazza and is painted a moss green with white trimmings" (Lexington
Minute Man, August 2, 1895) .
Glen Road was one of the last streets to be developed on Meriam Hill.
Only on this street and Upland Road adjacent were some of the houses built
speculatively, although it is uncertain whether this house was so built.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Lexington Minute Man, August 2, 1895.
1898 map
1906 atlas
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