HomeMy WebLinkAboutwinthrop-road_0009 FORM B — BUILDING AREA FORM No. IM 467
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
'n Lexington
off tress 9 Winthrop Road
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Present residential
Original residential
)ESCRIPTION:
between 1894 and 1898
Source
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Colonial Revival/Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Aret - rt
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
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Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
Moved Date
Approx. acreage 18670 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street of substantial
Organization Lexington Historical Commission houses built at the turn of the twentieth
Date April, 1984 century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is carefully embellished with a number of Colonial Revival/
Queen Anne features: porch with clustered columns and balustrade; central
pavilion with bay window on the second level and elaborate pediment above
finished with a round-headed window and dentil course at the eaves; and
palladian window with arched muntins at the gable end.
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 owned in 1898 by Abram 0. Washburn. He._zay___have.._pWt___tbe
house up on speculation and it might be the 'one he sold to J.H. Clahane in tai ;_'
1907. --This may be-,..the. on1y,..house-..on_-Winthrop.. Roa-d-,_built for sale by a
contractor In...general,_ houses were built by--relatively wealthy commuters
for their ow-n occupancy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
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1898 atlas
1906 atlas
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