HomeMy WebLinkAbouthancock-street_0066 FORM B -BUILDING
Assessor's number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
64/137 Boston N. 1059
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Town Lexington
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11�I��III Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 66 Hancock Street
N Historic Name Patrick&Margaret Dacey House
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Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction c.1880
Source Assessor's records, 1875 map
Style/Form
Architect/Builder Patrick Dacey?
Exterior Material:
Foundation fieldstone
Wall/Trim wood clapboards
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Roof asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
garage/barn
Major Alterations (with dates) c.1900 -front porch;
1989 -rear addition
Condition good
\ Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 34460 SF
Recorded by Lisa Mausolf Setting mixed 18th to 20th century residential area
Organization Lexington Historical Commission along busy road
Date (month/year) July 2000
Follow 11assachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM (66 Hancock Street)
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of the building in terms of other buildings within the
community.
Dating to the late 19th century, 66 Hancock Street is a 2 1/2-story, clapboarded dwelling oriented with its two bay wide
gablefront set close to the street. The house rests on a fieldstone foundation and is capped by an asphalt roof with projecting
eaves ending in returns. The sidehall entrance contains a multi-glass door framed by sidelights. The turn-of-the-century
entrance porch is supported by a pair of Roman Doric columns echoed by pilasters adjacent to the door. Next to the entrance
is a three-sided bay window set above a stone foundation with rusticated horizontal boards below the 2/2 windows. The
unevenly spaced two 2/2 windows upstairs are capped by lipped lintels and there is a smaller 2/2 window lighting the attic.
The south side elevation is two bays deep, also with 2/2 windows. Those on the upper story extend to the frieze and are
without lintels. At the rear of the main house block there is a hip-roofed oriel window supported by brackets and containing a
pair of 2/2 windows. Extending behind the main house is an offset,two-story, gable-roofed wing fronted by a single-story
enclosed porch with modern fenestration including a gabled entrance. Extending behind the wing is a two-story addition,
further offset.
A c.1890 detached barn/garage is located to the southwest. The clapboarded 1 1/2-story building is set with its broad side
and double-wide modern garage door facing the street. There are 2/2 windows on the side elevations. The projecting eaves
display exposed rafters.
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HIS TORICAL NARRATIVE
Describe 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.
The early history of this house is not known. It was apparently constructed after 1875 as it is not depicted on that map. The
earliest known(and possibly the original) owner of the house was Patrick F. Dacey who lived here from about 1886 to 1897.
According to the town history Dacey was a mason and contractor who came to Lexington in 1873. In 1897 Dacey bought a
house on Muzzey Street and apparently sold the Hancock Street house to George Whiting, who owned multiple properties in
town. The 1906 Atlas shows Whiting as the owner of the house. By 1913 the property was owned by Frank Berquist, a
provisions dealer in Charlestown,who lived here until about 1922. Patrick Fitzgerald occupied the house in the late 1920s
and 1930s. Ralph and Frances Scribner acquired the house about 1940 and sold the property to Richard and Priscilla McKee
in 1947. Jonathan and Magdalena Himmel purchased the house in 1977.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
Lexington Assessors Records.
Lexington Directories, various dates.
Lexington Minute-man, 12/3/1897.
Lexington Valuation Lists, various dates.
1875 map.
196 Atlas.
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attached a completed
National Register Criteria Statement form.