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FORM B - BUILDING 164
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
wn Lexington
A dress 27 Vine Brook Road
storic Name Russell-Raymond-Valentine
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DESCRIPTION:
3 =s; ite nineteenth century
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SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Massachusetts Avenue Date 1941
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Approx. acreage 9914 eta
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street of houses of
Organization Lexington Historical Commission mixed date, some moved here from elsewhere.
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, reputedly the ell of the house at 32 Vine Brook Road,
- displays no features which would pinpoint its construction date, although
the narrowness of the distance from upper story windows to eaves would seem
to indicate a pre-Greek Revival date. The doorway is a twentieth century
replacement.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of themmunity.)
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For complete history of this house, see 32 Vine Brook Road form. The
house was moved from 1960 Massachusetts Avenue to this site in 1941.
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, pp. 553, 717.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to Eugene Viano, February 7, 1941.
Snapshots of house moving. Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library.
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