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57/101 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph North Lexington
Address: 14 Hill Street
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Historic Name: Woodworth-McConnell House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
'- Date of Construction: 1898
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Ir R _ � r Style/Form: Queen Anne
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Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: fieldstone
Wall/Trim: asbestos shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
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Major Alterations(with dates):
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Condition: fair(due to siding)
Moved: no x yes I I Date
r7�, �� (' Acreage: 0.16 acre
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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 14 Hill Street
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 14 Hill Street is a simple Queen Anne style structure which is 2 'h-stories in height with a fagade which is three
bays wide. The roof is sheathed in asphalt with projecting eaves that end in returns and a brick chimney. The gablefront is
fronted by a single-story porch supported by turned posts with jigsawn brackets at the top of the posts. The sidehall entrance
retains a glass-and-panel door and there are two 2/2 windows adjacent. Crowning the porch roof is a stick balustrade with urned
newel posts. With the exception of the 1/1 window in the attic,the windows retain 2/2 sash. There is also a small Queen Anne-
style fixed window lighting the front stairhall. A 2 'h-story gable projects from the west elevation—it is a single bay wide and a
single bay deep and rests on a mortared stone foundation, like the house.
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 constitutes Lot 31 of George F. Tewksbury's subdivision, laid out in 1897 (Plan Book 109,Page 22). In
December 1897, Tewksbury sold the lot to Marion Woodworth(Book 2616,Page 146). The house (known initially as 12 Hill
Street)was probably built soon thereafter. Marion's husband, Sanford,was employed as a carpenter and house painter. The
Minute-man reported on April 10, 1909 that the couple had just celebrated their 25th anniversary. The house was later owned
and occupied by their daughter Laura who married Roy McConnell. It remained in the Woodworth family until it was sold by
Laura McConnell to Frederick and Linda Hopwood in 1975.
The present owners purchased the property in 1980.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
1906 map
Lexington Minute-man,April 10, 1909.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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