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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 64/12
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town/City: Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place: (neighborhood or village):
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Address: 33 Hill Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
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Date of Construction: ca. 1906-18
Source: historic maps, town directories
Style/Form: Craftsman
Architect/Builder:
- � – Exterior Material:
Front (fagade) and right side elevation Foundation: fieldstone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles and trim
Locus Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
' Detached garage
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� Major Alterations (with dates):
Porch, window, and eave trim (L 201h– E 21St c)
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- — Condition: good
Moved: no ❑ yes ❑ Date:
x i Acreage: 0.39
y Setting: Located on a winding residential street with
heterogeneous development of varied periods, styles, and
scales. Adjacent to Lexington Golf Club.
Recorded by: Wendy Frontiero
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date (month/year): September 2015
12/12 Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 33 HILL STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
33 Hill Street occupies a long, narrow lot that slopes down to the back of the property. The house has narrow front and left side
set backs, taken up by ground cover, shrubs, and small trees. A paved driveway occupies most of the side setback on the right
side; a wood walkway leads between the driveway and the front porch. The house consists of a 2 '/2 story, roughly rectangular
block.
The building rises from a fieldstone foundation with deeply recessed joints and a raised basement at the back to a front gable
roof. The roof has exposed rafter ends and no gable returns. A chimney is located on the right slope of the main roof, near the
center and the ridgeline. Walls are clad with wood shingles and trimmed with narrow flat corner boards. A decoratively sawn,
flat wood grille spans the tip of the gable peak. Windows are typically 2/1 double-hung sash with flat casings. Windows on the
front fagade have an additional applied header board with a narrow cornice molding. The front fagade contains a full-length,
shed-roofed porch across the first floor, with slender square posts and a spindle railing across the top. The off-center, single-
leaf doorway is flanked by a window on each side on the first floor. Two asymmetrical windows are set on the second floor,
surmounted by two windows centered in the half story.
The asymmetrical right side elevation contains three windows on the main block, one on the first floor and two on the second.
Towards the back of the first floor, a shallow rectangular projection with a virtually flat roof extends down to grade and features
paired casement windows and a rectangular transom on its long face. The left side elevation, also asymmetrical, contains two
windows on the second floor, and what appears to be a small recessed porch (now enclosed) at the back corner. The first floor
was not visible at the time of this survey.
A detached garage stands behind and to the right of the house. Clad in wood shingles, it features a hip roof, two individual
vehicle bays, and flat wood trim.
Well maintained and generally well preserved (with a few faux-Victorian touches added), 33 Hill Street is a modest example of
early 20th century housing in Lexington. The house is notable for its simple massing, exposed rafter ends, front porch,
idiosyncratic fenestration, and original/early garage.
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.
Established by the early 18th century, Hill Street is a country road that provided an important connection between the radial
highway of Bedford Street and western Lexington; it also formed a section of an old route between Concord and Salem.
Sparsely developed through the 19th century, Hill Street contained no more than three houses by 1906. The arrival of street
railway service along Bedford Street in the first decade of the 20th century may have been the inspiration for limited new
development over the next few decades. Catering to wealthy summer residents, the Lexington Golf Club was established in
1895 and began operating at the Vaille Farm on Hill Street in 1899. The Club purchased the property in 1906. (The 1906 map
identifies the "Del Corde House" at the center of that large undeveloped tract of land.)
33 Hill Street was one of only two houses identified on the north side of the street, both at the Bedford Street end, in 1922. The
property(then numbered #25)was occupied as early as 1920 by Alfred E. Haynes, a carpenter with the Boston Elevated
Railway, his wife Jemina S. (born in Nova Scotia; the spelling of her name varies from source to source), and three of their five
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children. By 1935, residents included Alfred, still with the railway company; Jemina; their son Warren E., a machinist; and Mrs.
Dorothy Duggleby, who is thought to be their daughter. Dorothy worked as a bookkeeper with various businesses, including an
electrical supply company and Minute Man Garage. Jemina Haynes and Dorothy Duggleby lived at 33 Hill Street at least
through 1965. Alfred was not identified at this address in 1945, but in that year the directory also lists here William Wright, a
retired octogenarian; Frank Thompson, a 69-year-old cabinet maker; and Etta Kittson, another octogenarian.
A plaque at the property calls it the Duggleby Farm, ca. 1912. Further research is recommended to illuminate possible
agricultural associations of the property.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927,
1935, 1935/1950.
Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries.
http://historicsurvey.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
Lexington Directories: 1899, 1906, 1908-09, 1918, 1922, 1934, 1936.
Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965.
Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980.
U.S. Census: 1910, 1920, 1930.
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Left side and front(fagade) elevations Garage: Front (fagade) elevation
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