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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 0064000146 Boston N. 758, 759
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
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Address 19 Revere St.
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Historic Name Albert F. Hitchings/Taylor/Tropeano
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House
Uses: Present Residential
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Original Residential
Date of Construction 1899
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Queen Anne
Architect/Builder
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' Foundation Fieldstone
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Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn
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Residence added to barn(date unknown)
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� Condition Good
Moved ® no ❑ yes Date
�ti !II Acreage 1.53 A.
Setting Near the bikepath(formerly railroad tracks) and at
the corner of a new street with large new 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.
19 Revere St. (MHC#758) is one of a number of Queen Anne farmhouses in Lexington but is distinguished by the existence of its
associated barn. The house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2%:stories,three-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a side chimney in
the ell. The two-by-three bay rear ell is flush with the southwest elevation of the house and set back on the northeast. The house
is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. The main entry,on the facade,has
a paneled oak door with a square light;windows are 2/1 and 1/1 double hung sash. Queen Anne details include the full-width
porch with a spindle frieze and turned posts on the facade; a two-story bay,a three-sided one-story bay, and a stained glass
window on the northeast elevation; and a hip-roofed dormer and a one-story five-sided bay with a dentil course at the cornice on
the southwest elevation. The 1'/2-story four-by-three bay barn(MHC#759) is side-gabled with a ridge chimney. There is a hay
door in a center gable but the barn door has been replaced by a garage door. The barn has windows on the southwest and
northeast elevations and a picture window in a one-story shed-roofed addition at the rear.
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.
Deeds and Lexington assessors' records indicate that this house was built in 1899 by Albert F. Hitchings, a market gardener,when
he moved to Lexington from Concord, for he bought the land without any buildings on it in November 1898 but was assessed for a
house and barn on the parcel in 1899. Hitchings did not remain in Lexington very long, however;he sold the house in 1901 to the
Rileys and they, in turn, sold it in 1916 to the Taylors, who had an estate and farm in the Larchmont Ln./Revere St. area with a
big house on the hill south of Larchmont Ln. This house was part of the Taylor estate until 1934 when it was sold, along with
Larchmont Farm (11 Larchmont Ln. [MHC#762]),to Alfred P. Tropeano, a relative of Joseph Tropeano,who had been the
farm foreman. The Tropeano family still own the house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1897-1899.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge,MA. 2696: 49; 2886: 61; 3159: 79, 80; 4068: 28; 5802: 61; 6691: 204, 205;
13660: 634.
❑ 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 19 Revere St.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 758, 759
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Roll#17,Negative#22