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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10050000175 1Boston N. L690, 691
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place (neighborhood or village)
-� Address 63 Paul Revere Rd.
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ill Historic Name Ann Reynolds House
s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1878
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
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Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn, Carport
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Major Alterations(with dates)
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Condition Good
• Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
*A Acreage 1.5 A.
.n Setting In an open field on a relatively quiet street of 20th-
century houses
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year) April 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
63 Paul Revere Rd. is one of several front-facing L-shaped Italianate farmhouses in Lexington;this one is exceptionally well-
preserved, still has its associated barn,and,thanks to its setting, retains a sense of its agricultural past. The house(MHC#690)
is two stories and cross-gabled with front and ridge chimneys. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards,and
roofed with asphalt shingles. On the south gable end is a small gabled covered entry and on the west elevation is a one-story shed-
roofed addition on a concrete block foundation. The main entry is in the reentrant angle under a porch with turned posts and
balusters;windows are 2/1 double hung sash. The large 1'/�-story,four-by-two bays, side-gabled barn(MHC#691)is on a
fieldstone foundation, clad with wood shingles, and has two very large barn doors. The stall area,the only one visible through a
window, appears to be of post and beam construction but the owner stated that the rest of the barn was balloon frame. At the back
of the property is a large three-bay car(actually truck-size)port.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑ see continuation sheet
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.
Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1878 by Ann Reynolds and her husband Patrick,who had
purchased the five acres on which it was then located in 1877. Paul Revere Rd. is an old road but was not actually laid out as a
street until the 20th century, so the house was probably reached from either Columbus St. or Massachusetts Ave.,which is why it
faces toward those streets rather than Paul Revere Rd. The barn was built in 1883, a period when post and beam barns were still
being built in Lexington(see 160 Wood St. [MHC#694] form).
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1878-1883.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Plans. Cambridge, MA. 1426: 500;'6070: 339;Plan No. 608 of 1947.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
Lexington 63 Paul Revere Rd.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 690, 691
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Roll #17,Negative#29