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HomeMy WebLinkAboutwalnut-street_0019 FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM N0.554 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108 =Y t = wn Lexington dress 19 Walnut St. storic Name Potter House J e: Present residential Original residential - - "' = - DESCRIPTION: to 1935 Source Owner SKETCH MAP Show property's location in relation Style Bungalow to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate Architect all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric vinyl siding Indicate north. © v / Outbuildings garage a Q L Q Major alterations (with dates) Fire 1979 s Moved Date < / Approx. acreage .6 (24947 ft.2) Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting Set well back from a street Organization Lexington Historical Commission with continual traffic; backs onto a Date February, 1984 wooded area (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This house, on a residential street where the other houses are much more recent, has a distinctive fieldstone foundation, porch and chimney. There -is a three-sided bay window on the north (not shown in the photo,; , a small rear ell on that side, and another small ell on the south next to the chimney. The un- usual cave-like garage, which is built into the side of the hill using the same kind of fieldstone as the house, has a decorative stone projecting up in the center front. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) This house was built in the 1930s by the Potters, the present owners. They also owned 52 acres on the other side of Walnut Street that included a piggery and the historic Jameson house. The Potters took down the Jameson house some- time before 1948, and the piggery land became the Powder Horn Golf Course and, later, Potter's Pond condominium de-`— �+ s -_ ///N l �� NINE ® // �;� '� ,�.� �'-' ��• �` .rte F,�" e BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (n - _ > 10M - 7/ 2