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FORM B - BUILDING F 335
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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ress 132 Woburn Street
toric Name Cutler-Kenison House
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DESCRIPTION:
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c. 1860
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SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style GreekRevival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
Indicate north.
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? Major alterations (with dates)
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from east side of Massachusetts Avenue
Moved near intersection of Date 1898-1906
Marrett Road
Approx. acreage 120Uu t•to�
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting On busy street; close to other
Organization Lexington Historical Commission nineteenth-century Vernacular houses.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This three-bay-long, one-room-wide, two-and-a-half-story house on a field-
stone foundation has a profile very similar to that of nearby late nineteenth
century houses. This house was, however, moved to this location from elsewhere
in town, and certain exterior finishes reveal its mid-nineteenth century date
of construction: the paneled corner boards, frieze board, and Greek Revival
doorway with full length sidelights, paneled pilasters with simple caps, and a
dentil course.
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 originally located on the east side of Massachusetts Avenue
at the south end of Tower Park near the intersection with Marrett Road. It was
apparently built sometime between 1853 and 1875 and was owned in the latter
year by Alfred D. Cutler, who moved from Lexington in 1877 and later became
Chief of Police in San Francisco. In 1889 it was owned by Dr. Parker Kenison,
a chiropodist who practiced in Boston and lived elsewhere in Lexington, and in
1898 by the estate of W. Pierce. In 1906 a house is still shown on the site in
East. Lexington, this time owned by George L. Lothrop, a traveling salesman, but
one is also shown on the present location at the corner of Woburn and Utica
streets, the latter owned by Patrick Costello, a laborer. None of the available
later atlas maps -- 1908, 1918, or 1927 -- show the East Lexington site, so it
is not possible to ascertain exactly when this house was moved but, on the
basis of the evidence available, it seems likely that this is the house shown
in 1906 on the corner of Woburn and Utica streets and that it was moved between
that date and 1898 and replaced with another house on the East Lexington site.
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. 152-153. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
"Notes made in 1941-1942." No. 58, Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library,
Lexington, Massachusetts.
1852 map
1876 map (East Lexington)
1889 map (East Lexington)
1898 map (East Lexington)
1906 map (East Lexington)
1906 map (Lexington)
1887 Directory
1906 Directory 10NI - 7/82