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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 50/47 BNorth 1570
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 6 Hastings Road
Historic Name: Charles H. Rudd House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
~ Date of Construction: c.1906
Source: directories, 1906 map
- Style/Form: Colonial Revival
� Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Topographic or Assessor's Map none
LIQMajor Alterations(with dates):
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Condition: good
3 Moved: no x yes Date
N�'' Acreage: 0.25 acre
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): January 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6 Hastings Road
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1570
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Facing Hastings Park, 6 Hastings Road is a two-story hip-roofed, Colonial Revival dwelling dating to the early years of the 201h
century. Sheathed in wood shingles,the house presents a five-bay facade to the east. The center entrance is located in a
projecting,hip-roofed vestibule outlined by pilasters with an overlaid pedimented door surround and five panel door. Most of
the wooden windows have 6/6 sash and are flanked by blinds. There is also a casement unit above the center entrance and a
three-sided bay window on the south elevation.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
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 property stands on part of the land subdivided by Augustus E. Scott(see 277 Waltham Street,MHC#461)in 1903. The
street was originally labeled as Hastings Terrace. The subdivision extended west of Hastings Park including the present
Hastings Road,Audubon Street and a strip on the south side of Massachusetts Avenue.
This house(originally known as 5 Hastings Road) appears to have been constructed for Charles H. Rudd(1876-1951) and his
wife Blanche. There does not appear to be a house on this site at the time of the 1906 Walker map. However,the Rudds
married about 1906 and it is likely that was the house was constructed shortly thereafter. He was employed as a broker in
Boston; she worked at one time as a teacher. The couple was living in an unnumbered house on Hastings Road at the time of the
1910 Census and is listed as living at 5 Hastings in the 1913 directory. The 1920 Census indicates that Charles and Blanche
Rudd were then living here with their daughter, son and a boarder. There were still here in 1942.
Later owners included Geraldine Lee and Steven and Gloria Sitzman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Lexington Directories,various years.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. -Plan Book 158,Plan 10
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 Walker map
Continuation sheet 1