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22/220 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph East Lexington
g� Address: 40 Locust Avenue (at Lexington Ave.)
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Historic Name: Edward T. Hartman House
+ ==--- - Uses: Present: residential
6 *3 Original: residential
Date of Construction: 1915
Source: deeds
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Style/Form: Dutch Colonial
- Architect/Builder: unknown
} - Exterior Material:
Foundation:
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
p garage
Major Alterations(with dates):
20 Date?—addition on west end
'l Condition: good
Moved: no x yes Date
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Acreage: 0.21 acre
Setting: 20th century neighborhood
Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): January 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 27 Locust Avenue
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.
27 Locust Avenue is an example of the Dutch Colonial style which found popularity nationwide in the 1920s and 1930s. As is
typical,the house is capped by a steeply-pitched gambrel with a long shed dormer in the front. In this case a two-story addition
has been constructed at the west end of the fagade, adjacent to the original three-bay facade. The center entrance is flanked by
sidelights and capped by a gabled door hood with arched underside. Windows consist of paired 6/1 windows adjacent to the
entrance and individual windows of the same configuration upstairs. The east gambrel end has a central exterior brick chimney
and is fronted by a single-story porch. A detached garage is located in the southwest corner of the property.
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 land on which this house sits (Lots 13-17 of the J.H. Blodgett Estate, 1875)was sold by Paul Burns to Edward T. Hartman
in 1915. The house was apparently built soon thereafter as the 50 year old Hartman, a native of West Virginia and secretary of
the Massachusetts Civic League,was living here with his wife Myra, son Dallas and a servant by 1920. (Based in Boston,the
Massachusetts Civic League was organized in 1898 and was a non-partisan,non-sectarian, statewide organization that sought to
educate and organize public opinion on various social issues including billboards, civic service,juvenile delinquency,housing,
mental health and playgrounds.)
Hartman sold the property to Adolphe Bernard in 1924 (Book 4733,Page 133). In the 1930s the house(then 76 Locust Ave.)
was owned and occupied by Charles and Alice Mathaurs. The property was later owned by Elissa and Robert Tap who sold it to
the present owner in 1999.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. (Plan Book 107, Plan 41)
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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