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Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston
1. Town- Lexington
Address 1 Winthrop
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Outbuildings (describe)-2 car garage
Other features Fieldstone, foundatio-a.Cen er
entrance; door with sidelights,Simp1e�anels
for lintel (over)
A -V19 Date C 1900
Altered Porch added?
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A 5. Lot size: 1 2--7
One acre or less X Over one acre
Approximate frontage 751
Approximate distance of building from street
30
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE 6. Recorded by E. W. Reinhardt
USGS Quadrant
MHC Photo no. Organization Lexington Historical fs-muas-sion
Date 9/14/75
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c;M-9-75-RO61465 (20M-2476)
7. Original owner (if known)
Original use
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Conservation Recreation
Agricultural Education Religion
Architectural Exploration/ Science/
The Arts settlement invention
Commerce Industry Social/
Communication Military humanitarian
_ Community development Political Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
Descrip cont. panels beneath lights complete door surround ; rectangular bay left front
facade; second floor windows front wooden "keystone" detail on architrave3 sided bay
on right side; w. boarding; left side windows with heavy projecting hoods at lst.story;
window treatment on 2nd floormatches front facade; roof high hip, 3 visible sides with
cross gable; roundheaded window in each gable; molded brackets at projecting eave line;
two visible chimneys; Colonial Revival porch across front facade; balustrade between
columns. 1st floor; balustrade around porch at 2nd floor level.
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10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
early maps, etc.)
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON I WINTHROP RD.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD ® I
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This house originally stood on the west side of what is now Pelham Road,just beyond the present Eliot Road. It was
occupied at one time by Albert S. Parsons. Parsons was a publisher and moved to Lexington from Cambridge in 1884.
In the 1920s the house was purchased by Daniel J. O'Connell, cut into two sections and moved and reunited to its present
location. There is no listing for this address in the 1926 directory but it is depicted on the May 1927 Sanborn map.
Directories indicate that it was occupied by David O'Connell Jr. in 1928 and by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schmitz in 1932.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 519.
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Sanborn insurance maps, 1918, 1927.
Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998,p. 31.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
December 2009