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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10028000014 Boston N. L—J 659
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 0212$
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 114 Lowell St.
910
o11 Historic Name
)s -Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction Late 19th century
Source Stylistic analysis
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
` Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations(with dates)
South addition (date unknown)
Condition Fair
- Lam€ - N
_— Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 0.2 A.
Setting Close to the road at the intersection of two busy
streets in an area of predominantly 20th-century houses
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) February 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.
114 Lowell St. is one of several front-gabled Italianate cottages in Lexington and, although not in very good condition, is more
intact than most of the others. The house is rectangular, 1'/2 stories,two-by-three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys.
It is set on a fieldstone foundation,clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. On the south elevation a roof
extension covers a one-story bay on a rusticated concrete block foundation, and there is a shed dormer on the south slope of the
roof. The main entry on the facade has milled brackets under the hood and transom lights over the door;windows are 2/2 double
hung sash.
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.
It is not clear exactly when this house was built because it has not been possible to trace the original owner in the deeds. The
house was sold in 1927 to the present owners by Frank Haskell Reed,who ran Reed's Dairy a little further south at 72 Lowell St.
(MHC#658). The style of the house suggests it was built in the 1870s, so it is possible that it was built as part of the Reed farm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 5141: 416.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.