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FORM B - BUILDING F 322
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
_ 294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
3 / l i Lexington
- ress 76 Woburn Street
-oric Name Fillebrown-Canfield House
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4 i ?SCRIPTION:
1827 _
dated floorboard in front
-Durce bedroom nearest south wall
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Greek Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Fox, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates) rear
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Moved Date
ElApprox. acreage 0.3 acre
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting on busy street; close to other
Organization Lexington Historical Commission modest nineteenth-century houses. -
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURU SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) —
This side-hall-plan Greek Revival cottage set with its gable end to the
street in a neighborhood of many nineteenth-century workers cottages, still has
many of its original finishes. On the exterior are the original clapboards,
corner boards, frieze board, and doorway with sidelights; on the interior are
many long-short four-panel Greek Revival doors, some with applied moldings;
corner blocks in the door casings; wide floorboards; and a typical Greek Revival
staircase with plain round balusters and a simple newel post with a turned shank
and knob on either side of a square block.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
TYtishouse is unusual in that its date of construction can be determined
exactly: during a renovation in the 1960s a floorboard was discovered in the
front bedroom on the underside of which was the date 1827, "Fox" (the name of
the builder) , and 2042, the price of the contract, in Roman numerals. The board
has been replaced face down nearest the south wall. This date makes this house
the earliest of the Greek Revival workers cottages in the Woburn Street area, a
fact confirmed by its appearance on the 1830 map.
By 1852 this house was owned by Darius Fillebrown and in 1876 by a Mrs.
Canfield whose husband died in 1872 and who lived in the house with her son
William, a farmer. William Canfield died in 1903 and in the 1906 Directory Mrs.
Canfield is no longer listed as living in the house although she is shown on the
maps as the owner, so presumably the house was occupied by tenants.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 91-92. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Notes by Rebecca Shankland, former resident at 76 Woburn Street, in possession
of the present owner of 76 Woburn Street.
1830 map
1852 map
1876 map
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
1887 Directory 1899 Directory
1894 Directory 1906 Directory
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