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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 10048000133 1Boston N. L6-
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 14 Sherman St.
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X11 Historic Name Mulliken/Sherburne House
s Uses: Present Residential
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1809-1822 (range)
Source Deeds
Style/Form Federal
.Lf f
z Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Rusticated Concrete Block
to Wall/Trim Vinyl Siding
Roof Asphalt Single
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations (with dates)
Rear additions (dates unknown)
'20 Condition Fair
—� Moved ❑ no ® yes Date 1906-1918 (range)
SHERRAN _
Acreage 0.3 A.
Setting On a quiet side street in a neighborhood of late
19th-and early 20th-century houses
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date (month/year) March 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.
14 Sherman St. is one of a number of Federal houses in Lexington but,due to the fact that it has been moved and sided, is less
intact than many others. (Other moved and sided Federals are at 137 Grant St. [MHC#6781 and 16 Manley Ct. [MHC#6661).
The house is rectangular with a rear ell, 2%s stories, five-by-two bays, and side-gabled with a front chimney. The four-bay-long
two-story front-gabled rear ell has a ridge chimney. The house is set on a rusticated concrete block foundation, clad with vinyl
siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. There are several hip-roofed,one-by-one bay additions in the reentrant angle. The center
entrance has a pedimented surround with dentils,fluted pilasters,and half-length sidelights over panels;windows are 2/2 double
hung sash.
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 originally stood on Massachusetts Ave. in front of the Sherburne House at 11 Percy Rd. (MHC#490). Deeds
indicate that the house was built sometime between 1809 and 1822: in 1809,when John Mulliken sold the land on which it later
stood to his sons Nathaniel and John Jr.,there was no mention of it having any buildings on it, but in 1822,when John Jr.
quitclaimed his share in the property to Nathaniel, it was described as having a house. In 1872 this house was purchased by
Warren Sherburne, who had moved to Lexington just a few years earlier and in 1893 would build the house now at 11 Percy Rd.
This house was moved to its present location sometime between 1906 and 1918, for it is shown on Massachusetts Ave. on a 1906
map but on Sherman St. in 1918.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑see continuation sheet
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 2: 615-16;443-46.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. 186: 74;408: 159; 1147: 187; 1201: 362.
Sanborn Map Company. Lexington,Middlesex County,Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1918. Pl. 5.
Walker, George H. &Co. Atlas of Middlesex County,Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker&Co., 1906. Pl. 36.
Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned,torn down,and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. Cary Library,
Lexington, Mass. 456
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.