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50/2 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 32 Lincoln Street
Historic Name:
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;.. 4 Uses: Present: residential
A; r Original: residential
Date of Construction: 19th century
Source:
Style/Form:
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles/wood clapboards
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
Major Alterations(with dates):
z. c.2005— renovation of garage
1A date?—front picture window
a 28 AC
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Condition: good
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A.2' Moved: no I x I yes Date
rc $" Acreage: 0.38 acre
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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 32 LINCOLN STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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.
This property consists of a modest 1 ''/2-story, cross-gabled cottage set on a mortared stone foundation with a rear wing and
lateral ell connecting to a garage/bam to the southwest. Stylistically,the house reflects no particular style but does incorporate
elements which were popular during the Queen Anne Style including a clapboarded first floor with wood shingles above,
bargeboards decorated by raised stickwork and squares and a turned post on the front porch. The gablefront of the main house
block is a single bay wide with a later 20th century picture window on the first floor and a 6/6 double-hung sash above. The shed
roof extension to the east(perhaps originally an open porch?)has a matching decorative bargeboard as does the shorter shed
extension to the west which shelters a recessed porch. Under the porch roof the front entry has a glass-and-panel door. Two
shed dormers with 3 x 2-light windows rise from the east roof slope with a single dormer on the west slope adjacent to the west
cross gable. A two-story modern addition with deck is located to the rear of the house and a two-story ell spans from the rear
wing to the two-story gablefront structure to the west which has a modern arched garage door on the first floor.
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.
The early history of this property is not known at this time. Assessors records estimate the date of construction at 1832 but this
has not been verified. The 1875 map indicates that the house was then owned by the heirs of John C. Blaisdell. The 1860
Census indicates that Blaisdell was then 50 years old, living with his wife Joanna and a servant. He was employed as an iron
works agent. In 1886 the Blaisdell estate was sold to Moses Joy,Jr. In June of 1887 Joy was elected president of the Water
Company. The following month he conveyed to L.E. Bennink 32 acres of land,the upland portion of Blaisdell's estate on
Loring Hill. The house is shown on later historic maps (1898, 1906)but the ownership is not indicated. It may have been part
of the water company property(see also 46 Lincoln Street?).
Census records indicate that in 1920 the house was being rented by Walter and Charlotte Goddard. He was an insurance agent.
In 1932 the house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bowman and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nash. Frank Ayer was living here with
his wife in 1942. In 1952 the property was sold by Marylou Steeves to Mildred Ayer(Conniff)who conveyed it to Chad and
Joanne Gordon in 1971. Clifford and Eileen Sagner owned the property from 1971 to 1986.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Lexington Minute-man,July 2, 1886; July 22, 1887.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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