HomeMy WebLinkAboutlincoln-street_0041 FORM B - BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1005000024A IBoston N. L_J 684
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 41 Lincoln St.
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•11 Historic Name Simon W. Robinson House
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itS Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
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Date of Construction 1866
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Greek Revival
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
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Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Attached garage
Major Alterations(with dates)
60 Enclosed sunporch; rear sunroom, connector, and attached
� garage(dates unknown)
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�./� Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 1.8 A.
Setting On a rise above a fairly busy street with 19th-and
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes 20th-century houses
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.
41 Lincoln St. is one of a number of well-preserved front-gabled Greek Revival houses in Lexington, though built at a later date
than most. The house is rectangular with a side ell, 2'/Z stories,two-by-two bays,and front gabled with an exterior chimney on the
south side and a small ridge chimney in the ell. The side-gabled ell is two stories and one-by-one bays. The house is set on a
brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. On the south elevation is a flat-roofed enclosed
porch on a concrete foundation;at the rear is a gabled sunroom and a one-story connector attached to a front-gabled two-car
garage. Greek Revival finishes include flushboard siding in the gable of the main block and of the ell, a frieze board around the
entire house, and half-length sidelights flanking the entry. There are two gabled dormers on either slope of the roof and a
wraparound porch with square pilastered chamfered posts.
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 that this house was built in 1866 by Simon W. Robinson (1792-1868), who had actually
bought the land on which it stands in 1850 but, having a house of his own on Concord Hill, i.e.,on Massachusetts Ave. west of
Lincoln St., did not build on this lot for many years. When he finally did erect a house it was apparently as a speculative venture,
for he soon sold the house and lot in 1868. It was purchased by the McCaffreys, who owned it for the rest of the 19th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 586.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1851-1867.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. 598: 463; 1036: 215.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.