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- FORM B - BUILDING 598
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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DESCRIPTION:
to 1857
Source David A. Tuttle papers
SKETCH MAP
-- Show property's location in relation Style Italianate
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect David A. Tuttle, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
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Moved Marrett Road (Shell Date 1860?
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Approx. acreage 26580 ft.2
Recorded by Nancy S_ Se--_sholes Setting on a quiet street near a busy,
Organization Lexington Historical Commission commercially-zoned intersection.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This imposing Italianate house, located near a busy intersection, is in
great contrast to the much smaller, more recent houses in its immediate neigh-
borhood. The house is well maintained and many of its original exterior
finishes are intact: the hexagonal cupola, wide cornices and corner returns
with paired brackets, round-headed window in the facade gable, long windows
with thin muntins, window caps supported by brackets on the first floor front
windows, the doorway with transom and sidelights of etched glass, and the
(see Continuation Sheet)
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This house was built in 1857 by David A. Tuttle, a prominent nineteenth
century Lexington builder, for Abraham W. Crowninshield. Crowninshield had
moved to Lexington in 1846 and bought an already existing farm on this site,
then at the corner of Lincoln and School streets. (The section of Marrett
Road through Five Forks was not built until 1868.) Although the Greek Revival
rear ell of this house is supposed to have been moved from the opposite corner
of Lincoln Street and Marrett Road (now the Shell station) , no house is shown
in that location until 1876 and one is shown on this site in 1852, so perhaps
the ell was the original house on the farm and the Italianate house was built
in front of it. Even about the time of its construction, this house was noted
as an important one. In his 1868 history, the town's historian singled out
this house as "a fine building, two stories high, with a cupola, from which
you overlook . . . [the] well cultivated farm" (Hudson 1868:430) .
In 1876 the house and farm, which extended along the west side of Lincoln
Street almost to the intersection with Middle Street, was owned by J.M. Brewer
and in 1889 by F.W. Barry, who continued to own it into the twentieth century.
On the 1898 map the farm is called the "Five Forks Stock Farm" and later it
apparently was named "Barrymeade" farm. For many years into the twentieth
century it was owned by the Sarrano family, who used it as a summer home. In
the late 1940s they subdivided all the farmland for housing developments and
it was at that time that the barn and garage were set off on a different lot
under different ownership from the house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Boston: Wiggin and Lunt,
1868.
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- Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 137. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
David A. Tuttle papers, Lexington Historical Society archives.
1852 map
1876 map
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET COMMLmity: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Lexington 598
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 315 Lincoln Street
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued bclow.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
large door hood supported by elaborate console brackets with a balustraded
balcony on top.
Many original interior finishes remain, too. The first floor has very
high ceilings; cornice moldings are present in the three parlors, with those in
the left front parlor (facing the house) the most intricate. Marble mantels
also remain in the three parlors: the one in the left front parlor is of grey
marble and has side panelling, an elaborate console-shaped design in the center,
and the- arched opening filled by a cast-iron grate with an intricate design;
the mantels in the right front and back parlors are of black-veined marble and
have curved mantles.
The rear ell appears to be Greek Revival in style. The exterior doorway
on the north has sidelights with slim muntins and molded panels beneath, fluted
pilasters topped by frets, and two carved wreaths over the door. The dining
room, which is in this ell, has some Greek Revival elements, notable the fluted
architraves with corner blocks surrounding the doors and windows; the room also
has some Italianate elements, probably added after the ell was joined to the
main house: the cornice molding, projecting plate rail, and chair rail.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Lexington 598
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 315 Lincoln St.
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
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1980 Photograph of barn (now demolished)
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