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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
<~^�� wn Lexington
P: � .dress 60 Pleasant Street
storic Name Frank I. Whittemore House
.e: Present residential
Original residential
- — = DESCRIPTION:
it
e c. 1895
Source map, directory research
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Shingle style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
Indicate north.
Outbuildings barn
STICE4FT Major alterations (with dates)
!� Moved Date
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a I Approx. acreage 20533 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street; houses mostly
Organization Lexington Historical Commission of mid-twentieth century building date;
Date April, 1984 Pleasant Brook development of Peacock Farm
houses adjacent to the rear.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
One of perhaps half-a-dozen late nineteenth century houses in Lexington
in which the chief design feature is a gambrel roof which encompasses the
second floor (called in a contemporary account a "duplex gambrel") , this well-
preserved house is a focal point of the street because of its size and because
it predates most of its neighbors by over 50 years.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
By 1898 Frank I. Whittemore, a milk dealer, resided here. Dairy farming
was Lexington's chief industry in the nineteenth century and the town was one
of the largest producers of milk in the Commonwealth. By 1906 the house was
occupied by James Walsh, a cotton dealer in Boston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1898 atlas
1906 atlas
-- 1894 Directory
1899 Directory
1906 Directory
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