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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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ress 990 Waltham Street
toric Name O'Brien House
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J Present residential (two-family)
_ Original residential
r _ - ESCRIPTION:
C. 1895
Source 1898 map
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Worker-s--Cot-cage 4
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Q Major alterations (with dates) two-story
® �(� 0 shed roof addition at back; now a two-
family house
Moved Date
Approx. acreage 5.0 A.
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting Near major street; set in woods
Organization Lexington Historical Commission removed from other houses.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
The late nineteenth century farmhouse, set at the beginning of a disused
road into Waltham (see Ricci's Lane area form) , appears to have begun as a two-
bay-long, one-room-wide, one-and-a-third-story-high cottage to which a large
two-story shed roof ell was added. This house is now a two-family house.
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 first appears on the 1898 map, at which time it was owned by
Martin O'Brien, a farmer. O'Brien still owned the house in 1906 and was one
of a number of Irish living near Waltham Street south of Concord Avenue, one
of the areas of Lexington to which the Irish had moved by the end of the nine-
teenth century (see Woburn Street area form) .
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1898 map
1906 map
. 1899 Directory
1906 Directory
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