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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 50/35 North 1583
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town: Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 29 Lincoln Street(SW corner Audubon Rd.)
Historic Name: Harry W. Patterson House
Uses: Present: residential
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I Date of Construction: c.1910
Source: maps, Census, visual inspection
.. 1 Style/Form: Craftsman Four Square
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
garage
Topographic or Assessor's Map
17 Major Alterations(with dates):
none
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9 Condition: good
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M� ��o - Acreage: 0.27 acre
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29 Setting: mixed residential neighborhood across
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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 29 LINCOLN STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1583
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 southwest corner of Lincoln Street and Audubon Road, 29 Lincoln Street is a 2 '/2-story Craftsman Four-Square
dwelling sheathed in wood shingles with a slight overhang in the shingles between the first and second stories. The house is set
on a mortared stone foundation and is capped by a high, asphalt-shingled hip roof with a painted brick chimney near the ridge,
projecting eaves and exposed rafter tails. Hip-roofed dormers project from the roof slopes;the front dormer is slightly larger and
contains a pair of 6/1 windows. The other dormers have a single window. A single-story,three bay porch spans the fagade,
supported by paired Doric columns resting on shingled bases with spindle balusters running between the bases. The airspace
below the porch deck is also shingled,punctuated by rectangular gridded vents. The sidehall entrance is marked by a broad
gable decorated by vertical half-timbering;two pairs of columns support the gable. The front door has an upper glass and two
lower horizontal panels and is flanked by partial sidelights. The second floor of the facade has a single 6/1 window over the
entrance and an adjacent pair of 1/1 windows. Elsewhere,the mix of windows include original double-hung 6/1 and 8/1 sash,
later replacement 1/1 units, an arched window on the west elevation and a three-sided bay window projecting from the east wall.
At the rear of the original house block is a two-story addition set on rusticated concrete blocks.
To the north of the house, facing Audubon Road is a single-story,hip-roofed garage sheathed in wood shingles with exposed
rafter tails and 6/6 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 stands on part of the land subdivided by Augustus Scott(see 277 Waltham Street,MHC#461)in 1903. The
subdivision extended west of Hastings Park including Hastings Terrace,Audubon Street and a strip on the south side of
Massachusetts Avenue. This property comprised lot 3 and part of lot 2. There does not appear to be a house on this site at the
time of the 1906 map.
The first known owner of the property was Harry W. Patterson who was living here in 1913. Patterson was born in Nova Scotia
and worked as a bookkeeper in Boston and later as a manager of a fruit and produce business. He was living in Lexington by
1900 and lived on Forest Street in 1910. He and his wife Janet, son and daughter were living here into the 1930s. In 1942 the
house was occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rivers. The property was sold by Mary Blackbourn to Constance Mascarello in
1948 and the Mascarellos continued to own the property until 1977. Stanley and Carol Woolf were the owners from 1977 to
2003.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.—Book 128,Page 10
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map.
Continuation sheet 1