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FORM B - BUILDING F 339
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
E' = n Lexington
ress 9 Utica Street
toric Name Ham House
_ j Present residential
-- - = Original residential
ESCRIPTION:
e c. 1870
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-ource 1876 map; Hudson 1913, II:263
SKETCH MAP
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to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric aluminum siding
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
13
Major alterations (with dates)
S
from 1963 Massachusetts Avenue
Moved(next to St Briaid's) Date c. 1907
s TQ T Approx. acreage 9980 ft.2
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting On quiet side street near other
Organization Lexington Historical Commission nineteenth century houses.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL. SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house has lost all its exterior finishes and its three-bay-long,
one-room-wide, two-story-high profile gives no indication that it is in any way
different from many nearby nineteenth century houses. This house was, however,
built c. 1870 and moved to this location c. 1907.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the comunity.)
This house was originally on Massachusetts Avenue just to the east of
St. Brigid's Church. It was built by William Ham (1818-1891) , a Lexington
blacksmith whose shop was on the property, for his son William F. (1846-1908) ,
also a blacksmith. On the basis of map evidence and William F. Ham's age, the
house was probably constructed c. 1870. After his father's death, William F.
Ham continued to occupy the house and blacksmith shop until about 1899; he
then sold it to a Patrick J. Keenan, a wool dealer in Boston. The house still
appears adjacent to St. Brigid's on the 190.6 map, but on the 1908 map the house
in that location has a completely differont' conf gdration,I so presumably this_
house -,ras moved-to Utica Street between those two years in order to make way
for the new house on Massachusetts Avenue.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 263. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Mulliken, Everett. Some of My Recollections of the Houses in the Vicinity of
the Common and the People who Lived in Them. Typescript. Worthen Collection,
Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
Worthen, Edwin. Notes Made in 1941-1942. No. 66, Worthen Collection, Cary
Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
1876 map 1887 Directory
1889 map 1894 Directory
1898 map 1899 Directory
1906 map 1906 Directory
1908 Sanborn atlas -
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