HomeMy WebLinkAboutlake-street_0016 FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 50/162 North 1581
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town: Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph
Address: 16 Lake Street (at Columbus Street)
Historic Name:
�;..._ Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
i ` Date of Construction: c.1900
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Source: maps, visual inspection
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Architect/Builder. unknown
Exterior Material:
` Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: clapboards
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Topographic or Assessor's Map shed
Major Alterations(with dates):
5 Date?—alt. to upstairs fagade windows, south gable
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addition?
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Condition: good
22 Moved: no I x I yes Date
�O �cb Acreage: 0.18 acre
o �`S' Setting: mixed 19t" and 20t" century neighborhood
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): Feb. 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 16 LAKE STREET.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1581
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.
Located at the corner of Columbus Street and Lake Street, 16 Lake Street is a 2 'h-story, gablefront structure sheathed in
clapboards and capped by a gable roof with overhanging eaves that end in returns. The fagade is spanned by a single-story porch
supported by turned posts with a spindle frieze and spindle balustrade. Alterations including the gable addition projecting to the
south and the shortening of the window openings over the front porch.
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 was built prior to the 1906 map which depicts a building on the site but does not indicate its owner.
It was known as 12 Lake Street for many years and the occupants changed frequently. George MacLaren was living here in the
early 1920s; William Lennon was at 12 Lake in 1928; John Wood was in residence in 1932. By 1942 the house (then#16)was
occupied by John H. Thompson.
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