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63/54 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph Upper Meriam Hill
Address: 26 Hayes Avenue
f. k{ Historic Name: Henry L. & Marion Wadsworth House
Uses: Present: residential
= � __ Original: residential
.. : r Date of Construction: 1912
-. Source: deeds
Style/Form: Craftsman
- _ Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingles
e, 61 ! Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
"�J shed
Major Alterations(with dates):
none
53 NN'
3 Condition: good
Moved: no x yes Date
Acreage: 0.33 acre
Setting: early 20`" century residential neighborhood
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): May 2008
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 26 Hayes Avenue
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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.
The house at 26 Hayes Avenue is an expression of the Craftsman style applied to a 2 ''/2-story, side-gabled form. The house is set
on a rubble foundation with stonework also supporting the front and side porches. The exterior is sheathed in wood shingles and
the asphalt-shingled roof displays an unusual tapered overhang which is of greatest depth at the apex of the gables. The ends of
the gable rakings and other projections display a decorative notched effect and are supported by decorative beams at the top and
base of the gables. A projecting two-story gable at the west end of the fagade gives visual interest to the three-bay wide fagade.
The front porch gable is half timbered and the roof is supported by bold,tapered posts. At the west end of the house a brick
exterior chimney emerges from the roof adjacent to a single-story porch. Windows include a mix of tripartite,paired and
individual wooden windows with 4/1, 6/1, and 8/1 sash in molded surrounds,with shutters. There is a fixed sash with geometric
tracery lighting the shed-roofed bay window on the east wall and a shed dormer emerging from the front slope.
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.
The house at 26 Hayes Avenue was constructed on land(lot 69)that was part of the Oakmount Park subdivision, initially laid
out in 1903. The land was sold by Frank Locke to Marion Wadsworth,wife of Henry in June 1911 (Book 3613,Page 350). The
1920 Census lists the occupants of the house as Henry L. Wadsworth,his wife Marion and son George. He worked as a lawyer
in Boston. Mrs. Wadsworth was still living here in 1942.
Later owners included Joan Schur who sold the property to Kathleen Dolan in 1974 (Book 12701, Page 197).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. —Plan Book 145,Page 3.
Sanborn Insurance Maps
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
Continuation sheet 1