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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10064000045 1Boston N. 764
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place(neighborhood or village)
Address 21 Larchmont Ln.
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a I Historic Name William Wood House
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Date of Construction 1855
Source Tuttle list; Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder David A. Tuttle
Exterior Material:
Foundation Brick
ea o Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Attached garage
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Major Alterations(with dates)
Rear additions (dates unknown)
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Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
'$p Acreage 0.6 A.
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to•• c� _:'t'`'I '� Setting On a quiet side street with a commercial area
below it at the back
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) April 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
21 Larchmont Ln. is one of a number of three-bay side-gabled Italianate farmhouses in Lexington but is distinguished by having
been built by one of Lexington's most prominent 19th-century builders. The house is rectangular,two stories,three-by-one bays,
and side-gabled with one rear chimney. The house is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with
asphalt shingles. A two-bay rear addition is on a fieldstone foundation and to it is attached a side-gabled two-car garage. In the
reentrant angle is a small one-story shed-roofed addition with a very tall chimney. The enclosed center entrance has full-length
sidelights; windows are 6/6 double hung sash.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet
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.
Lexington assessors' records indicate this house was built in 1855 for William Wood, a fact verified by David A. Tuttle's 1904
list of houses he had built in Lexington. It may seem surprising that Tuttle, one of Lexington's most prominent 19th-century
builders,would construct such a modest house at the same time he was erecting high-style houses such as those at 22 Hancock St.
(MHC#106), 315 Lincoln St. (MHC#598), and 225 Waltham St. (MHC#460). But Tuttle evidently also built more modest
houses; other vernacular examples of his work are at 23 Revere St. (MHC#760) and 410 Marrett Rd. (MHC#642). William
Wood was a farmer and sold the house in 1866. It was acquired in 1873 by Charles Bacon, also a farmer, and he owned it into the
20th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation List. 1855-1857.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 708: 146; 988: 275; 1114: 562; 1211: 645; 1264: 152.
Tuttle, David Ainsworth. List of buildings erected in Lexington. Presented to the Lexington Historical Society, April 4, 1904.
On file at Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.