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294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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to 1857
Source David A. Tuttle's list
SKETCH MAP Greek Revival
Show property' s location in relation Style with Colonial Revival modifications
to nearest cross streets and/or
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all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north. ;
Outbuildings barn C10 VJ Z2S Vida.(fAawi>
✓j - 41YtiT Major alterations (with dates) porch,
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dormers, balustrade, bay windows added
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Approx. acreage 51840 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting on a rise northwest of residen-
Organization Lexington Historical Commission tial street of houses of mixed date.
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 was built originally as a substantial Greek Revival structure
by David A. Tuttle, local carpenter. Exterior features which survive from the
original building period are the corner pilasters and broad friezeboard. In nevi
1905, the house was renovated in the Colonial Revival Style. A front porch 4",L t
with fieldstone foundation and roof balustrade, bay windows, dormer windows/ �J'�
joined by another balustrade were added. There is a nineteenth century barn on
the property. The large oak tree to the left of the house has
for many years been called the geographic center of Lexington.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The house was built by E.A. Mulliken (b. 1823, d. 1899) , a milkman and
farmer in 1857. His son, John Emery Abbot Mulliken (b. 1856) , who was in the
coal business, returned to live in the house in 1906 having made the Colonial
Revival renovations on the house a year earlier. The next owner was Elisha
Horton Tower (b. 1844) , brother-in-law of John E.A. Mulliken. The building
was later owned by William E. Mulliken, treasurer of the Lexington Cooperative
Bank.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Album of newspaper clippings in the possession of-Elizabeth Reinhardt.
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 446, 702.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 221 WALTHAM ST.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 460
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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Mulliken House on July 4, 1896
(before 1905 Colonial Revival alterations)
Source: Kelley,Lexington: A Century of Photographs, p. 43.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington: A Century of Photographs. Lexington Historical Society, 1980.