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DESCRIPTION:
Draw map showing property's
location in relation to nearest
cross streets and other buildings Date c. 1900
or geographical features.
Indicate north. Source map research
Style Colonial Revival
%y Architect Abram C, washburn, builder
Exterior wall fabric
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11" 5R Major alterations (with dates)
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Approx. acreage A. (12886 ft.2)
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street of houses
OrganizationLexington Historical Commission slightly more modest than those on the
Date March, 1984 rest of Meriam Hill.
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ARCHITECT[TRAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
One of several houses on this street put up speculatively by Abram C.
Washburn, this is one of the builder's few ventures into the Colonial Revival
style (6 Upland Road is another) . Original exterior features remain including
a porch with paired columns and stickwork balustrade, a doorway With leaded
glass sidelights, and a three-part window on the second level with dentil
course above.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
Abram C.Washburn was one of Lexington's most prolific builders in the
late nineteenth century. In addition to building for others (such as the house
at 2 Oakland Street) , he put up houses on speculation in several areas of town
including the Upland Road/Glen Road area on b;eriam Hill, the Parker Street/
Forest Street area, and Bloomfield Street. (See 4 Glen Road form for more
information on Washburn.)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1889 atlas
1898 map
1906 map
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 4 UPLAND ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 399
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
There is no house on this site at the time of the 1898 map. The original owner appears to have been George Leavitt,who
is first listed at this address in the 1906 directory. Leavitt worked in Boston and lived here with his wife and two sons.
He is last listed here in the 1910 directory.
By 1915 the house was being rented by Walter Faxon,who died in 1920. In 1926 Fletcher Taft resided here.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
U.S. Census Records, 1900-1930.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
June 2009