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AREA FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING T f
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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* cess 15 Parker Street
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is one of Lexington's best preserved examples of the standard
side hall plan, facade-bay-window house with Italianate trim built so frequently
in the second half of the nineteenth century. There are paired brackets at the
eaves. The bay windows have panelled trim. The porch with chamfered posts
shelters a double-leafed door and wraps around to join a small ell to the right.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
- zap research indicates this house appeared on Parker Street between
1876 and 1889, although stylistic analysis would suggest a somewhat earlier
date of construction; perhaps it was moved from elsewhere in town, although
there is no documentary evidence to this effect. In 1889 it was owned by
G.H. Byam, a collector; in 1898 by his widow; and in 1906 occupied by Walter
Faxon, a professor at Harvard.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1876 map
1889 map
1898 man
1906 map
1887 Directory
1899 Directory
1906 Directory
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