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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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_ = dress 336 Lincoln Street
storic Name Miller Farm Chicken
Q 16oder House
e: Present residential
- — - Original chicken brooder house
DESCRIPTION:
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest inters t'on Exterior wall fabric vertical wood siding
Indicate north.
4 � Outbuildings
fi Major alterations (with dates) converted
to residence, carport and family room
v added (1951-1952)
COMoved v Date
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QApprox. acreage 34460 ft.2
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting On quiet street; next to former
Organization Lexington Historical Commission farmhouse and backs onto conservation
Date March, 1984 (formerly farm) land.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This unusual long, low house was originally built as a chicken brooder
house for the Eiller farm. According to the present owner, it is the typical
shape of a -New England chicken brooder house: the long axis runs east and
west so that most of the building faces south for maximum solar warmth.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This building was originally part of the Puller farm, the farm formerly
on the south side of Lincoln Street from Five Forks to the Idylwilde farmland
on the west (see 23 Piddle Street form) . The Miller farm raised eggs and the
former farmhouse is the white bungalow at 334 Lincoln Street.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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