HomeMy WebLinkAboutmaple-street_0025 FORM B — BUILDING
Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10030000105 1Boston N. 651
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
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Address 25 Maple St.
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Historic Name Isaac Redfield/George Worthen House
Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1863
1 rh Source Lexington Valuation lists
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Style/Form Italianate
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Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
,e Foundation Brick
to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
bbbt Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Garage
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t J Major Alterations(with dates)
�X Rear addition(date unknown)
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I 1 Condition Good
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Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 0.8 A.
r i Setting On a heavily-trafficked street in a row of 19th-
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.
25 Maple St. is one of the best-preserved vernacular front-gabled Italianate houses in Lexington. The house is rectangular, 2'/2
stories, three-by-three bays, and front-gabled with two side chimneys. It is set on a brick foundation, clad with wood clapboards,
and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a large front-gabled addition on a concrete foundation with a"garrison"overhang.
On the east elevation is a three-sided two-story bay on a brick foundation. The main entry is on the facade; windows are 2/2
double hung sash. Italianate finishes include cornerboards, side frieze boards,eave returns, and square porch posts with curved
brackets that create a flattened-arch effect. The detached two-car brick garage has a hip roof.
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 1863 by Isaac F. Redfield, a Boston lawyer who also owned the
house now at 3 Ingleside Rd. (MHC#646) and the farm associated with it. Redfield had purchased the lot on which this house is
located in 1863 and in 1864 was assessed for two houses—the one now at 3 Ingleside Rd. and this one,which had clearly been
built in the interim. Redfield sold this house in 1865 and in 1891 it was purchased by George E. Worthen, a machinist,whose son,
Edwin B.,became the treasurer of the Lexington Savings Bank and an antiquarian authority on Lexington history.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1863-1866.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. 898: 70; 955: 541; 1067: 69; 2065: 245.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.