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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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Source stylistic analysis
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Willard Brown
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
Indicate north.
Outbuildings Garage
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second-story bav window with segmentally--
arched roof (date unknown)
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Approx. acreage ?017 t- ✓
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Suburban residential street;
Organization Lexington Historical Commission houses of mixed twentieth century
Date !,larch, 1984 construction date.
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is a gambrel-roofed Colonial Revival 'house which combines a patterned
shingled surface (every fifth row of shingles has a verW narrow weather) with
an unusual central Pavilion. The pavilion, however, represents an alteration
to the original design. As first constructed and pictured in Willard Brown's
albur., the house had a sin.:ple pediraented cortico. The portico was enclosed
sometime later and a second-store rectangular baw window with se7.ientally-arched
roof were added above. The entablature of the aortico was extended around the
(see Continuation Sheet)
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The area of Slocum, Road was part of the estate of Lewis Hunt, hardware
merchant, who moved to Lexington in 1864 and acquired much real estate. Slocum:
was Hunt's mother's r::aiden name. The house at 22 Slocum Road is included in
:Millard Brown's album of plans and nhotographs of his works in the rossession
of the Lexington Historical Society. It is labeled the Hunt house and no date
is given for it.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Albur.; of works bv i'illard Brown. Lexington Historical Society archives.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Comammity: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CUM SSION Lexington 4.76
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 22 slocur. Road
Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
base of the bay window and large console brackets were placed at either side.
This highly original bay window may well have been designed by Willard Brown,
too. It is characteristic of his highly original style.
Staple to Inventory form at bottom
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 22 SLOCUM ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 476
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This house was apparently constructed for Misses Antiss Slocum Hunt(b. 1868)and Mary Dean Hunt(b. 1873),
daughters of prominent businessman Lewis Hunt(1843-1893). The Misses Hunt were living here by 1918 and were still
here in 1942.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 316.
Lexington directories,various dates.
U.S. Census, Lexington.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009