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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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tress 49 Parker Street
,toric Name Augustus 47ellincTton House
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►ESCRIPTION:
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SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Greek Revival
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geographical features. Indicate Architect ��-t �
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric aluminum siding
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates)
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from Massachusetts Avenue (site of
Moved Hancock Church) Date 1892
Approx. acreage 16052 ft®2
Recorded by Anne Grady, Nance S. Seasholes Setting Adjacent to the high school
Organization Lexington Historical Commission playground; on a residential street
Date April, 1984 developed in the second half of the
nineteenth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This substantial Greek Revival structure, although covered with aluminum
_ siding, retains its original design including corner boards, broad frieze,
pedimented gable, porch with chamfered hosts, and simple Greek Revival frontis-
piece drawn from Asher Benjamin's Practice of Architecture (1833) . This is
the First of manv houses in Lexington to be built by David A. Tuttle. By 1894
he had completed 39 houses in town.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
_ David Tuttle built the house for his own occupancy, but before 1853 he
sold it to Augustus Wellington. Wellington, son of Nehemiah Wellington on
Parrett Road (see 419 14arrett Road form) and a relative of the Gellingtors on
Concord Avenue (see 177 Concord Avenue form) , was, like his cousins in South
Lexington, in the milk business and was apparen v a very popular person in
town.
This house originally stood on r.assachusetts Avenue on the site of the
present Hancock Church; it was moved to Parker Street in 1892 so that the
church could be built. In 1898 and 1906 it was occupied by Elbridge 171. Glass,
who was in the teamina business.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Benjamin, Asher. Practice of Architecture. Boston: published by the author
and Carter, Tendo and Company, 1833.
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 733. Boston:
Houghton iifflin Companv, 1913.
David A. Tuttle's list of houses he built, 1904. Lexington Historical Societ-Y
archives.
1853 map
1898 map
.1906 map
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