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FORM B - BUILDING H 383
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
wII Lexington
dress 25 P4eriam Street
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Original residential
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to 1884
Source Lexington Minute Ilan, 10-17-84
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates) porch
�\ x removed from facade, balustrades removed
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from roof, frontispiece and quoins added
(c. 1940)
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Moved Date
Approx. acreage .6 A. (2504.0 fto2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street composed of
Organization Lexington Historical Commission ample late-nineteenth centurt7 houses and
Date March, 1984 mid-twentieth century infill.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
Even before alterations, this house was apparently more faithful to
Second Period sources than other houses on beriar.i Hill within the Colonial
Revival style. Historic photographs show that the house has lost some features
and acquired others. The hip roof with pedimented dormers on each face was ,
originally embellished with balustrades between the dormers on the main facade
and at the peak of the roof. The quoins and the quite archaeologically-correct
frontispiece with segmentally-arched pediment pilasters and rustication are a
(see Continuation Sheet)
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The house was built in 1884 by George Henry Emery, a bookkeeper. By
1894 George Milne who was assistant treasurer of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and served on the school committee and sewer and water boards
of Lexinc-ton was the owner.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 188, 434. Boston:
Houghton 2.;ifflin, 1913.
Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, pp. 21, 23. Boston:
Lexington Historical Society, 1980. p p
Lexington Iinute Ilan, October 17, 1882. /� Z�j �0 Q� /71 �p#4
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Foran No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCMfISSION Lexington 383
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 25 Neriam Street
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
later addition of c. 1940, but segmentally-arched trim above the windows on
the first level of the facade is original. The house has lost a one-story
porch on the facade and gained one on the right side. The balusters on the
roofless veranda around the house has been replaced by a panelled balustrade.
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