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Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 0071000060 Boston N. 1 768, 769
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place (neighborhood or village)
to Address 1 Sunny Knoll Ave.
'll Historic Name Elizabeth F.White House
�s Uses: Present Residential
1 I
Original Residential
Date of Construction 1906
Source Lexington Valuation lists
Style/Form Italianate
Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
to Wall/Trim Wood Clapboard
y Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures Barn
Major Alterations(with dates)
Additions to house and barn (dates unknown)
Condition Good
Moved M no ❑ yes Date
Acreage 0.6 A.
_S .N_NY K NoLL_� AVENUE
r ,1 • Setting On a quiet side street set back from and above a
street with constant traffic
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.
I Sunny Knoll Ave. (MHC#768) is a probably the most retardetaire Italianate farmhouse in Lexington, although the one at 290
Wood St. (MHC#696) is a close second. The house at 1 Sunny Knoll also still has its associated barn. The house is
rectangular, 2'/�stories,two-by-three bays, and front-gabled with a ridge chimney. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with
wood clapboards, and roofed with asphalt shingles. At the rear is a one-story flat-roofed addition. The main entry is on the
facade;the 2/2 windows have hooded surrounds supported by brackets. Other Italianate finishes include the paired brackets under
the cornice of the projecting bay and the eave returns and a two-story three-sided bay on the east elevation that has paired windows
on both floors and diagonal clapboards between them. A wraparound porch has a roof supported by Tuscan posts set on a
fieldstone wall. The P/2-story two-by-two bay side-gabled barn(MHC#769) is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with
clapboards, and has original swinging barn doors. On its east elevation is a side-gabled addition with a center gable, ridge
chimney, and a front extension over two swinging garage doors.
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,which appears to be an Italianate farmhouse,was actually not built until 1906. It is on part of what had been an 8.27-
acre parcel that had been transferred a number of times in the late 19th century. Finally, in 1904 the large parcel was subdivided
into smaller houselots. The one on which this house is located was sold in September of that year to Elizabeth F. White,the wife
of Robert H. White,who was the superintendent of the Lexington Poor Farm, located at Cedar and Hill streets. The Whites
apparently built this house in 1906, for they were first assessed for a house on the land in 1907.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Lexington Valuation Lists. 1905-1909.
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Plans. Cambridge, MA. 1384: 174, 176; 1771:423; 2116: 114, 118; 3059: 81; 3058: 397;
3120: 203; 3119: 352. Pl. Bk. 75, Pl. 17.
❑ 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
MASSACHUSETTS HiSTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Fonn No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
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220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, 02125
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