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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
Y Address: 16 Hill Street
Historic Name: Watt-Mansfield House
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Uses: Present: residential
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Original: residential
Date of Construction: 1898
Source: deeds
11# , Style/Form: Queen Anne
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Architect/Builder: unknown
- Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
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Major Alterations(with dates):
c Date?— vinyl siding, rear addition
C1 Condition: fair(due to siding)
rp5 Moved: no x yes Date
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Acreage: 0.17 acre
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Setting: mixed 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 16 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 16 Hill Street is a 2 '/2-story gablefront dwelling constructed in a simplified Queen Anne style. The house is set on
a mortared stone foundation and is presently sheathed in vinyl siding. The gable roof displays projecting eaves that end in
returns and a brick chimney emerges from the ridge. The house is fronted by a single-story porch supported by bulbous turned
posts with a spindle frieze and stick balusters. There are three bays of openings on the first floor of the fagade, including the
sidehall entry and two above. Although predominantly retaining 2/2 sash,the window surrounds have been covered in vinyl.
There is a Queen Anne fixed sash with square lights on the east side of the house and a three-sided bay window at the rear of the
west elevation. Extending behind the house is a single-story wing of recent construction,resting on a concrete foundation with a
deck on the west side. Fenestration includes casement and double-hung windows.
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 32 of George F. Tewksbury's subdivision, laid out in 1897 (Plan Book 109,Page 22). The lot was
sold by Tewksbury to Charles Watt in October 1897 (Book 2598,Page 279). Watt(b.1852)was born in Scotland and came to
this country about 1892. C. Watt is shown as the owner on the 1906 map. He worked as a contractor and lived here with his
wife, children and other family members. Watt later lived here (originally known as 14 Hill St.)with his daughter,Elizabeth,
and her husband Thomas Mansfield, a postman. The Mansfields continued to live here into the 1940s.
The property was sold by Eugene and Mary White to Lincoln and Evelyn Cole in 1954 and by the Coles to Nina Dodd in 1993.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
1906 map
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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