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FORM B - BUILDING 416
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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.storic Name Robey-Parker-Castleman
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DESCRIPTION:
ite 1753
Source deed research
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Show property's location in relation Style Second.-Period
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Robey, carpenter
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings barn dismantled and moved
sA Es from Vermont for garage (1980)
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7- Major alterations (with dates)dismantled
9 � frame and interior wood finishes re-erectec
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d0� Moved from Merrimac NH Date 1979
QApprox. acreage 1.93 A.
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Secluded wooded site; adjacent
Organization Lexington Historical Commission to Turning Mill Road development of
Date March, 1984 contemporary houses.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This Second Period building was dismantled and re-erected with care.
Where original materials could not be salvaged, new or comparable old materials
were sensitively introduced. The frame and most finishes of the original five-
bay wide, one-room deep, two-story central chimney house were retained. The
framing which was left exposed when the house was re-erected is unusual in that
even the major beams were sawn at a sawmill. The high studding of the house is
reflected in the substantial pilastered and entablatured frontispiece. The
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Deed research indicates that the house was built in 1753 by Robey, a
carpenter, on his own land in Mlerrimack New Hampshire. Nathaniel Parker bought
the house before 1800 and in the 1830s it was used as a tavern. When purchased
in 1978 by the current owners, the house was the oldest building in MerrimacV,
The current owners transported the building to Lexington and erected it over a
two year period with the help of Dick Wertz, a carpenter specializing in such
work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Personal communication from Paul Castleman.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCi+ 1ISSION Lexington 416
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 7 Mountain Road
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
original molded window caps and cornice were reused. There is original
raised field panelling in the right hand room, and simple wide-board dado in
the left hand room. The mantelpieces probably date from the original building
period, as do the finishes of the stairhall including the raised field panelling
and the stair trim with molded newell caps and diagonally-set square balusters.
The rear ell is partially new materials, but the framing of a shed at
the back has been reused for a sunporch. The garage is made from parts of a
barn dismantled in Vermont and re-erected to the left of the house. An unusual
feature of the barn is that the plates are exposed on the exterior and the
vertical sheathing boards are secured to a rabbet on the lower edge of the
plates.
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