HomeMy WebLinkAboutmaple-street_0033 FORM B — BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
30/112 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph East Lexington
4 Address: 33 Maple Street
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Historic Name: Frederick W. and Mary C. Turner House
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f . . .r Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Date of Construction: c.1900
Source: maps, directories
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
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ti r��o Major Alterations(with dates):
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Condition: fair(due to siding)
Moved: no x I yes Date
0p Acreage: 0.45 acre
Ntk Setting: mix of late 19th and early 20th century on
NO heavily traveled street
Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): Feb. 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 33 MAPLE STREET
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.
The house at 33 Maple Street is a 2 'h-story, side-gabled structure,unusual for the bowed,two-story front projection. The fagade
is fronted by a single-story porch/porte cochere supported by turned posts with a turned balustrade and spindle frieze. The main
entrance has a glass-and-panel door and there is a diamond-paned fixed window to the side. Windows include a mix of 2/1 sash
and 1/1 replacements. The house is sheathed in artificial siding and there is a single-story addition at the southern corner.
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.
This house appears to have been constructed in the early 20'I'century. The land is shown on a plan of a houselot owned by H.D.
Bradbury in 1897 (Plan Book 197,Plan 8). Mary C. Turner purchased several pieces of land from C. Wellington in 1902, 1903
and 1905. There appears to be a house on this site at the time of the 1906 map which indicates that it was then owned by Mary
C. Turner. She was married to Frederick W. Turner. Mary Turner died in 1909 and Fred died early in 1910.
By 1913 the house was occupied by Charles Van Alstine, a Boston optometrist, and his wife Minnie. The couple was still living
here in 1942.
The property was later acquired by the Follen Church Society which conveyed it to Mary and Michael Chessman in 1968.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
Continuation sheet 1