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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph North Lexington
Address: 4 Tewksbury Street
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Historic Name: Bernard Hossfield House
"41 M1 Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
HNPoo Date of Construction: c.1910
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Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: unknown
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Exterior Material:
_ r Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
vOutbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
" Major Alterations(with dates):
' Date?— rebuilding and enclosure of front porch
07'
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Condition: good
Moved: no x yes Date
(01 Acreage: 0.16 acre
1 Setting: early 20th century residential
D- ,Q neighborhood off Bedford Street
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): May 2008
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 4 TEWKSBURY STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Setback from the neighboring houses,4 Tewksbury Street is a small two-story cottage with a gambrel front. It is sheathed in
wood shingles and rests on a mortared stone foundation. The facade is spanned by a wood shingled porch which was later
enclosed by the installation of jalousie windows. Windows elsewhere are predominantly 6/1 sash and are flanked by shutters.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
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 property is lot 5 on the Plan of Houselots belonging to George F. Tewksbury in 1898 (Plan Book 112,Page 5). In 1897
Tewksbury had purchased land at the corner of Bedford and Hill Street as well as the adjacent Payne estate and had plans to lay
out approximately fifty lots(Minute-man,April 2, 1897). Although that number was never achieved, in 1905 the paper noted
that Tewksbury had"built up quite a little colony"in this part of town over the past two or three years (Minute-man,Nov. 18,
1905). Tewksbury Street had not yet been laid out by the time of the 1906 map.
In 1902 Tewksbury sold many of the lots on what would become Tewksbury Street to Bowman Patten. Patten in turn laid out
his own subdivision in 1910,this being lot 3 of that plan(Plan Book 189,Page 20). By 1920 the house was owned and
occupied by Bernard Hossfield who was born in Switzerland in 1863. He immigrated to the US in 1883 and came to Lexington
in 1898. He was still living here in 1942.
The house was acquired by Albert Bettencourt prior to 1965 and sold by Bettencourt to Robert Phelan in 2005.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of Lexington,vol. 2,p. 308.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. (Plan Book 112, Plan 5; Book 4230, Page 332)
Sanborn Insurance Maps
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
Continuation sheet 1