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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 50/182 BNorth 1580
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 5 Lake Street
Historic Name:
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Original: residential
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Date of Construction: c.1906
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Style/Form: Vernacular Queen Anne
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Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: wood clapboard
Roof: asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Topographic or Assessor's Map none
131 Major Alterations(with dates):
2e.20000000000AW 5' after 1935—addition to south
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13,744 Acreage: 0.32 acre
Setting: mixed 19th and 20th century 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 5 LAKE STREET.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1580
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.
5 Lake Street is a modest, 1 %-story,gablefront worker's cottage which is set on a rubble foundation. The house is sheathed in
wood clapboards with simple cornerboards and projecting eaves that end in returns. The west facade is just two bays wide. The
sidehall entry is sheltered by a shed-roofed door hood resting on brackets decorated by turned and incised ornament. Most of the
window openings contain double-hung 6/6 wooden sash and are flanked by blinds. There is a fixed, square window with colored
glass panes on the north elevation. A single-story addition on a brick foundation extends to the south of the original house.
Sanborn insurance maps indicate that it was not present in 1935.
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 house appears to have been constructed in the early 20'I'century. There is no structure on the site at the time of the 1906
map. The earliest known owner was Manuel Lee who was living here as early as 1922. Lee was a Portuquese-born laborer who
immigrated to this country about 1884. His wife Mary was Irish. The couple had three children,two of whom—Frances and
Michael—were still living here in 1942.
The house has been owned by the Higgins family since at least the 1970s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass.
Sanborn Insurance Maps
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
Continuation sheet 1