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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 100640014OF Boston N. 737, 738
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
\ \ Place (neighborhood or village)
to Address 80 Hancock St.
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l Historic Name Charles Blodgett House
' s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1887
Source Lexington Minute-man
Style/Form Queen Anne
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Brick
% Wall/Trim Asbestos Shingle
Roof Asphalt Shingle
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Attached barn and garages
Major Alterations(with dates)
E 67 S E 67, Additions to barn(dates unknown)
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Condition Good
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Acreage 0.7 A.
Setting At the corner of two busy residential streets in a
neighborhood of 20th-century houses
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) February 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.
80 Hancock St. (MHC#737) is one of many Queen Anne farmhouses in Lexington but one of the few that still has its associated
barn (MHC#738). The house is a cross-gabled, front-facing T with a rear ell, 2'/2 stories, and three-by-two bays. The front-
gabled two-story rear ell is one-by-two bays with a small side chimney. The house is set on a brick foundation, clad with asbestos
shingles, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The front entry door has a large-paned light surrounded by small panes and similar
sidelights and windows in the foyer area;windows in the rest of the house are large-pane-surrounded-by-small panes/l double
hung sash. Queen Anne details include the brackets with a cut-out design at the gable eaves and the full-width porch with a
pedimented entry,turned posts, spindle rail, and decorative balusters.-The large side-gabled barn is set on a fieldstone foundation,
clad with wood clapboards, and has an asphalt shingle roof. A large metal circular ventilator is embossed with swag and fishscale
designs. Under the center front gable is a hay door and a sliding barn door with small-paned windows. Additions to the barn
include a shed-roofed one-car garage and connector to the house at the left of the barn door, a hip-roofed one-car garage on a
concrete foundation on the west elevation and,behind it, a rusticated concrete block one-story shed-roofed building with a concrete
chimney. There is also a shed-roofed clapboarded addition at the rear of the barn.
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 1887 by Charles Blodgett(1818-1891),who had previously lived on what is now Middleby St. After
Charles' death, his son Walter carried on a milk business here until 1917,when the house and its associated five acres were sold to
Florence H. Robinson of Somerville. The Robinsons continued to operate a dairy on the property, F. H. Robinson & Son
becoming the first pasteurized milk company in Lexington.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 40.
Lexington Directory, 1887, 1894, 1899, 1906.
Lexington Minute-man, 12 August 1887, 22 March 1959.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 4160: 41.
❑ 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 80 Hancock St.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 737, 738
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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