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Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 4$/224 North 1619
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 56 Vine Street
Historic Name:
Uses: Present: residential
r-- Original: residential
.� Date of Construction: c.1906
+ Source: maps
Style/Form: Queen Anne
Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding/wood
Topographic or Assessor's Map
Roof: asphalt shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
87.2 feet none
Major Alterations(with dates):
9� c.2000—vinyl siding and new windows
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&. 2 Acreage: 0.72 acre
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): Jan. 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 56 Vine Street
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1619
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.
Set on a hill above the street, 56 Vine Street is a vernacular Queen Anne-style dwelling which appears to date to the early 20th
century. Resting on a stone foundation,the 2 'h-story structure consists of a side-gabled main block with a cross gable
projecting from the east end. The fagade of the main block is fronted by a single-story porch supported by turned posts with
decorative brackets and a turned balustrade. Under the porch the entrance consists of a simple doorway. The projecting gable
has cut-away corners and cornice returns. The windows contain modern 2/1 sash and are used individually, in pairs and in sets
of three. There is a small square fixed window with"Queen Anne"-style colored glass centered on the second floor of the
fagade below a hip-roofed dormer. Other details include several single-story,three-sided bay windows.
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.
There does not appear to be a house on this site at the time of the 1906 map. The first owner may have been Mary O'Brien who
apparently owned the property in 1915 (Plan Book 240,Plan 22). By 1926 Florence Morrison was the owner(Book 5007,Page
81). The property was later owned by Joseph Swan, a real estate agent. Members of the Swan family sold the property to
Murray Potter in 1982.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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