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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
4 0056000041 Boston N. 726, 727
Town Lexington
Place (neighborhood or village)
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Address 48 Hancock St.
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Historic Name Warren M. Batcheller House 42
-Uses: Present Residential
r_ Original Residential
4. Date of Construction 1903-1904
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
`f Foundation Fieldstone
Wall/Trim Wood Shingle
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Carriage house/garage
Major Alterations(with dates)
_ P o Rear addition (date unknown)
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PO Condition Good
Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
! Acreage 0.75 A.
Setting On a heavily-trafficked residential street in a
neighborhood of large,high-style 19th-and early 20th-
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes century houses
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date (month/year) January 1998 ) /v�)> &FF
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.
48 Hancock St. (MHC#726) is one of a number of well-preserved Colonial Revival houses in Lexington and contributes to the
group of high-style 19th-and early 20th-century houses on Hancock St. The house is basically rectangular in plan, 2'/s stories,
three-by-three bays, and hip-roofed with a side chimney. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood shingles,and
roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is an enclosed one-story shed-roofed porch. The center entrance is flanked by sidelights
with elaborate tracery and the windows are 1/1 double hung sash. The rectangular plan is broken by a number of projecting bays,
including a circular bay with conical roof at the southeast corner, and there are hip-roofed dormers on either side. The house has
many ornamental exterior finishes: a wide molded cornice with modilrions and a dentil course underneath, an oculus window in the
front gable,a palladian widow with lancet panes over the main entry,a second story wall that flares outward at the base and has a
band of molding underneath, a small stained glass window with a pilastered and dentil-coursed surround on the south elevation,a
large palladian window with elaborate stained glass on the north elevation, and, on this same elevation, an oval window and an
oriel window with small circular and semi-circular panes. The former carriage house(MHC#727),now a garage, is clapboarded,
side-gabled, has a hay door in a center gable, and cupola vent.
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.
This house was built in 1903 by Warren M. Batcheller, who lived at 46 Hancock St. (MHC#725). In 1888 Batcheller bought
the lot on which this house stands, which at the time had an older house on it. In 1897 he built the house now at 46 Hancock St.
on the lot, in 1902 sold the old house (it was moved to Bedford St.), and in 1903 was assessed for"1 house"(46 Hancock St.)and
"2 unfinished houses"(this house and the one at 50 Hancock St. [MHC#7281). The latter two houses were finished by 1904.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1903-1904.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1871: 20.
Worthen, Edwin B. to Mrs. Bruce Currie, 16 February 1951. Worthen Collection. Cary Library, Lexington, MA.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
Lexington 48 Hancock St.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Foran No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 726' 727
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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