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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: 6 Tewksbury Street
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` Historic Name: Walter Rose House
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Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Date of Construction: 1922
Source: deeds, maps, Census
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Style/Form:
..*.- ,. Architect/Builder: unknown
' Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingles
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(0' Condition: good
Moved: no I x I yes Date
Acreage: 0.15 acre
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Setting: early 20th century residential
neighborhood off Bedford Street
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 6 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.
The house at 6 Tewksbury Street is a 1 ''/2-story,wood-shingled cottage set on a mortared fieldstone foundation. It has an L-
shaped plan with a single-story porch filling the recess, supported by a Doric column. Windows consist of 6/1 sash and include
a shed wall dormer above the porch. Behind the original house is a two-story addition with a hooded entry facing the driveway.
The addition connects the main house with a gambrel-roofed former garage which has been retrofitted for living space.
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 6 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 a number of the lots on what is now Tewksbury Street to Bowman Patten. Patten laid out his own
subdivision in 1910,this being lot 4 (Plan Book 189,Page 20). There is no listing for 6 Tewksbury Street in the 1920 Census.
That year Bowman sold the lot to Annie O'Connor and in November 1922 O'Connor resold it to Statie Rose (Book 4569,Page
268). The 1924 directory lists Walter Rose, as a chauffeur living at 6 Tewksbury Street. Walter and Statie Rose were still living
here in 1942.
The property was acquired by Gloria Colbert in 1958 and she continued to own it until 1992.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Sanborn Insurance Maps
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
1906 map
Continuation sheet 1