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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10064000148 Boston N. 754, 755
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
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J: Address 11 Revere St.
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l Historic Name Benjamin Gleason House
s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1873-1874
Source Lexington Valuation lists
F y Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
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Foundation Fieldstone
4 o Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
4", Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn/garage
IL Major Alterations(with dates)
p Side addition (date unknown)
REVERE
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Condition Good
Moved ® no El yes Date
IAcreage 0.9 A.
-' — Setting Almost obscured from street by large fir trees; in a
neighborhood 19th-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.
11 Revere St. (MHC#754) is one of a number of front-gabled Italianate farmhouses in Lexington but is distinguished by the fact
that it still has its associated barn(MHC#755). The house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2'/�stories,three-by-three bays, and
front gabled with an exterior chimney on the southwest elevation of he main block. The two-by-two bay two-story rear ell has an
end ridge chimney. The house is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards,and roofed with asphalt shingles. A
shed-roofed one-story one-by-three bay addition on a concrete block foundation is located on the northeast elevation. The main
entry is on the facade, a secondary entry with a porch on the southwest elevation, and the windows are 2/2 double hung sash,those
on the first floor longer and with projecting cornices. The 1'/z-story barn is now a side-gabled two-car garage.
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 1873-1874 by Benjamin Gleason, for Gleason had bought the
land on which it stands in February 1873 without any buildings on it,was assessed later that year for an unfinished house on the
lot, and in 1874 for the completed house. It is not clear whether or not this was the same person as the Benjamin F. Gleason who
in 1851 had built the house now at 23 Revere St. (MHC#760). In any event,this Benjamin Gleason sold the 11 Revere St.
house in 1881 to a Samuel Holloway, who is described in the 1887 Directory as a picture frame manufacturer and in later
Directory's as a gilder who worked in Boston, and Holloway owned the house into the 20th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Lexington Directory. 1887, 1894, 1899, 1906.
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1873-1874.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 1077: 249; 1249: 153; 1579: 305.
❑ 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 1 I Revere St.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 754, 755
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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