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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Federal
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric wood shingle
Indicate north.
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Major alterations (with dates) two—story
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rear ell; maior renovation including new
1n0g11 RN 57 RST doorway (1984)
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Approx. acreage 0.2 acre
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting On busy street lined with mid-
Organization Lexington Historical Commission nineteenth century workers cottages and
Date April, 1984 houses.
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET CommLulity: Form No:
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCWISSION Lexington 301
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name:36 Woburn Street
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1980 photo showing house before the 1984 renovation
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" APCH17-ECI'URAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
Set on a brick foundation near many mid-nineteenth century workers cottages
and small houses, this house has lost most of its exterior finishes and might,
except for its profile, appear to date from the same period as its neighbors. A
few remaining interior finishes, however, are Federal in character: the narrow
three-run stair; the wide board dado; and the Federal fireplace with a molded,
mitered surround and a broad frieze with lateral panels. The house is currently
being renovated and the doorway has recently been changed: a hood with brackets
has been removed and new Federalesque pilasters added on either side of the door.
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 originally stood on the farm of Deacon' James Brown, which was
located on the east side of Massachusetts Avenue at the intersection of Marrett
Road. It may be the house described as originally being two stories, unfinished
inside, framed with oak, and having diamond-shaped window glass, but if so,
nothing about the house now would indicate a seventeenth or early eighteenth
century core consistent with these features. About 1830 it was remodeled, Bryant
states, and moved to the front of the Nunn estate, then located in the fork
between Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett Road on the property now occupied by
the Museum of Our National Heritage. Sometime between that year and 1876 it was
moved to Woburn Street, for it is shown in its present location on the 1876 map.
In that year and on subsequent maps it was owned by someone named Davis who is
not listed in any of the Directories, so he was presumably a nonresident landlord
and the house was occupied by tenants.
Moved: (1) from Deacon James Brown farm (east side of Massachusetts Avenue at
Marrett Road) to Nunn estate (fork of Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett
Road) (1830) ; (2) from Nunn estate to this site (before 1675)
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Bryant, Albert W. "Lexington Sixty Years Ago," 1890. Proceedings of the
Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 47-48. Lexington: Lexington
Historical Society, 1900.
Worthen, Edwin. Notes Made in 1941-1942. No. 57, Worthen Collection, Cary
Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
1876 map
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
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