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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 13e,
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toric Name Ellen Lane House
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source Tuttle papers
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect David A. Tuttle, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings garage "-
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Major alterations ("with dates)
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Moved Date
i O Approx. acreage 24.620 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady, Nancy- S. Seasholes Setting Residential street developed in
Organization Lexington Historical Cormission the second half of the nineteenth centum
Date April, 1984
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- ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is a vernacular, side hall plan, facade-bay-window house which
has been dressed up with a molded eave with brackets at the corners; dentils
on the bay window; and above all, a porch embellished with turned posts, a
Chippendale balustrade, and segmentally-arched friezes between the posts.
The frieze exhibits stippled circle design at each end. Dentils also trim
the porch eave. The entrance is recessed and the porch wraps around to join
a small ell to the left side. The stipple design is repeated on the brackets
at the eaves. This stipple treatment has not been noted elsewhere in Lexington.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This house was built in 1885 by David A. Tuttle, a prominent nineteenth
century Lexington builder, for Mrs. Ellen B. Lane. Mrs. Lane continued to
occupy the house until about the turn of the century. In 1903 it was owned
by Fred W. Talcott, the apothecary who owned the house at 24 Parker Street.
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1903
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Tuttle papers. Lexington Historical Society.
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
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