HomeMy WebLinkAboutgrant-street_0047 FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10048000126 Boston N. 677
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 0212$
Place (neighborhood or village)
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Address 47 Grant St.
9to
Historic Name Charles H. Harrington House
s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1896
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Queen Anne
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
. to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
r Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations(with dates)
Side addition, enclosed porches (dates unkno%vn)
4,0 Asbestos shingles covering original clapboards removed
S' (1988)
Condition Good
`\ Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
O
I_ Acreage 0.3 A.
Setting On a busy residential street in a neighborhood of
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes late 19th-century 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.
47 Grant St. is a well-preserved example of a vernacular Queen Anne with some distinctive features and finishes. The house is L-
shaped, 2'/2 stories, and cross-gabled with a ridge chimney. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and
roofed with asphalt shingles. A one-story flat-roofed addition on a cement block foundation extends along the entire south
elevation of the house. At the rear, first and second story sun porches are now enclosed. Queen Anne finishes include a square
tower with a pyramidal roof in the reentrant angle, paired windows separated by sunburst panels,and a small stained glass
window on the south side. There is a dentil course at the cornice of both the house and porch, a one-story projecting bay to the left
of the main entry, a stained glass window to the right, and a porch with turned posts and balusters.
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.
Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1896 by Charles H. Harrington,a painter, for in 1896 he owned
only the lot but in 1897 was also assessed for a house on it. Although the Grant/Sherman/Sheridan Street area was developed
in the 1890s and early 1900s as one of rental houses (see Area form G), Charles Harrington seems to have lived in this house
himself and was still residing there in 1924.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Lexington Directory. 1899, 1906, 1924.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1896-1897.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.