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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 48/85
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town/City: Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place: (neighborhood or village):
Merriam Hill
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Address: 10 Oakland Street
�. Historic Name:
Uses: Present: residential
., Original: residential
Date of Construction: ca. 1910-18
Source: assessors' records, town directories,
U.S. census
Style/Form: Bungalow
Architect/Builder:
Exterior Material:
Foundation: fieldstone
Front facade and right side elevations Wall/Trim: stucco veneer with wood trim
Locus Map Roof. asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
None
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14,894 �� Major Alterations (with dates):
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2, o Condition: good
a Moved: no ❑ yes ❑ Date:
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0:870 ' s z `" Acreage: 0.20
Setting: Set on the slope of a residential side street
,� [1 ti characterized by large, late 191h century homes. Houses
.z 1 are widely spaced but with comparatively modest front set
backs. Sidewalk with planting strip on one side of street;
F mature street trees.
Recorded by: Wendy Frontiero
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): September 2015
12/12 Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 OAKLAND STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1169
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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
10 Oakland Street occupies a small triangular lot that rises steeply from left to right through the site, creating a fully-exposed
basement on the left side of the building. The yard is maintained mostly in lawn at the front and right side, with mature trees
scattered throughout, foundation plantings adjacent to the building, and a wooded back yard. A concrete walkway leads from
the street to the right side of the building. A straight, paved driveway crosses the left side yard at a diagonal.
The approximately square building rises 1'/2 stories above a fully-exposed basement on the left side to a hip roof with deep
eaves and a hip-roofed dormer centered on each slope. One chimney rises above the right slope. Walls are stucco with wood
sill boards. Trimmed with wood band molding, windows have 6/1 (on the left side) and 9/1 (on the right side) double hung sash,
with diamond-paned sash common in grouped windows. The three-bay fagade has an 8/1 window on each side of a shallow
center entrance vestibule, which features angled corners and a period door with wood and glass panels. Recessed below the
front slope of the roof, a full-length porch has a solid concrete foundation and semi-open half-walls of faux-stone concrete
blocks, surmounted by sturdy Tuscan columns and a shaped stucco fascia.
On the left side elevation, a shallow, projecting rectangular bay window towards the front contains a tripartite window with all
diamond-paned sash and surmounts a one-bay garage door. Two single windows are set towards the back of this elevation on
the main floor. The right side elevation displays four slightly asymmetrical windows and has concrete steps accessing the end of
the porch.
Well maintained and well preserved, 10 Oakland Street is a small scale yet unusually inventive example of Bungalow design in
Lexington. It is notable for its characteristic Bungalow form, stucco cladding, idiosyncratic use of concrete block, carefully-
developed porch, varied fenestration, and integral garage.
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.
Part of the Merriam Hill neighborhood, 10 Oakland Street represents the infrequent, early 20th century infill on the south slope of
the hill. These houses were typically modestly scaled and ornamented, scattered amongst much larger and more elaborate
residences. 10 Oakland Street appears to have been built between 1910 and 1918. The first known residents, in 1918, were
Samuel E. Brown (1885-1964), an artist with a studio in Boston, and his wife Florence I. The Brown family, which also included
two young sons, lived here at least through 1922. Subsequent residents included George Hauman, another artist, and his wife
Doris C. (who lived here with a young son from at least 1930 through 1940); Walter W. McCoubrey, who was in the Army, and
his wife Mary(1945); and William H. Kilpatrick, a dentist, and his wife Jane (1955 and 1965).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards 1733-1990. New England
Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 OAKLAND STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Bluehill, Maine. Works by Samuel Brown. http://www.bluehillbaygallery.com/p/brown.htmi Accessed Jul
28, 2015.
Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927,
1935, 1935/1950.
Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period Summaries. http://historicsurveV.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm
Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1918, 1922, 1934, 1936.
Lexington Historical Commission. Form A, LEX.H, Meriam Hill. Prepared by Lisa Mausolf, 2000.
Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965.
Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980.
U.S. Census: 1900, 1920, 1930, 1940.
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Front(facade) elevation Left side elevation
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