HomeMy WebLinkAboutwebb-street_0016 FORM B - BUILDING Assessor's Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number
47/90 Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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4 Address: 16 Webb Street
Historic Name: Herbert D. Williams House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Date of Construction: c.1915
Source: visual inspection, deeds
Style/Form: Bungalow
Architect/Builder: unknown
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Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: wood shingles
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
b garage
Major Alterations(with dates):
Date?— rear deck, second floor addition at rear, chimney
and side addition
+� ,F (Z Condition: good
Moved: no I x yes Date
Acreage: 0.23 acre
' Setting: mixed 20th century neighborhood off
Woburn Street
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): Feb. 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 16 WEBB STREET
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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.
Screened by a row of large arborvitae,the house at 16 Webb Street is a hip-roofed bungalow set on a rubble foundation and
sheathed in wood shingles. The overhanging eaves display characteristic exposed rafter tails. There is a hip-roofed dormer
rising from the front roof slope, a shed dormer on the south side and a curved modernistic addition emerging from the back roof
slope. The main entry is recessed slightly. Historic windows include rectangular bay windows and double-hung sash with
multiple lights in the upper sash over a single light lower sash.
To the southwest of the house is a hip-roofed,two car garage with two overhead garage doors, a hip dormer and exposed rafter
tails.
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.
This property consists of lots 28-31 of the Battleview Park subdivision laid out by James E. Burke in November 1913 (Plan
Book 224, Plan 14). The subdivision included buildings on Woburn,Fernald,Dunham,First to Fifth Streets,Webb and Young
Streets. This is one of the few lots built upon originally. Today the neighborhood primarily dates to the late 20th century.
In August 1914 Burke sold the four lots to Herbert D. Williams who worked as a motorman(Book 3926,Page 516). The house
was constructed soon thereafter as Williams is listed as living here in the 1915 directory. In 1923 the house was sold by
Williams to Margaret Mactavish. She sold it three years later to Horace Burgess. The house was sold by Arley Burgess's estate
to the town in 1928.
By 1942 the property was owned by Ralph and Dora Frissore. He was employed as a carpenter/contractor. The property
remained in the family until the 1970s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass.
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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