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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10064000100 Boston N. 756, 757
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 18 Revere St.
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11 Historic Name
s Uses: Present Residential
_4 Original Residential
Date of Construction ca. 1812
Source Date in plaster
Style/Form Federal
tF;
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Brick on fieldstone
o Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn, Shed
Major Alterations(with dates)
I1 N Second chimney blew down(1938 hurricane)
Rear addition (1980s)
Condition Good
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I 1 i Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
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Acreage 0.6 A.
77
Setting Set back from street on an open lot
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.
18 Revere St. (MHC#756) is one of a number of Federal farmhouses in Lexington though one of the few that still has a barn.
The house is rectangular with a rear ell,two stories, five-by-two bays, and side-gabled with one rear chimney. The four-bay-long
front-gabled two-story rear ell is on the same type of brick foundation as the main block. At the northwest end of the ell is a side-
gabled two-story one-by-two bay addition on a newer brick foundation. The brick foundation of the original house is set on top of
the original fieldstone foundation,the house is clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The center entrance
surround has a wide frieze with a projecting molded cornice,pilasters,and full-length sidelights; a secondary enclosed entry is in
the reentrant angle between the ell and addition; and windows are 2/2 double hung sash. The 2'/2-story,three-by-four bay front-
gabled barn(MHC#757)has its original barn and hay doors and an attached a three-by-one bay one-story side-gabled shed at the
southwest corner.
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.
This house was probably built in 1812, for the son of the people who owned it from 1934 to 1983 remembers that"1812"was
found scratched into the plaster in the southeast upstairs bedroom. It is not clear who built the house, however, for it was only
possible to trace it in deeds back to 1839, at which time it was owned by a Joseph Eaton. In 1914 this house was acquired by the
Taylors,who had a large estate in the Larchmont Ln./Revere St. area with a huge house on the hill south of Larchmont Ln., and
remained part of the Taylor estate until 1934.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 385: 88;473: 240, 375; 657: 318; 695: 544; 706: 564; 915: 95; 984:
287; 996: 80; 3884: 84; 5802: 64.
Philip Parsons Jr.,personal communication 1998.
Crystal Ribich, personal communication 1998.
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.