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Home My WebLink Aboutarea-mFORM A - AREA MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CGUISSION 294 Washington Street, Boston, MA. 02108 ---------------------------------------- Form numbers in this area 466-474 1 (A), 2 (A), 145 (D) Lexington Area letter a ,f area (if any) Winthrop Road 1 date or period 1890-1910 Sketch map. Draw a general map of the area indicating properties within it. Number each property for which individual inventory forms have been completed. Label streets (including route numbers, if any) and indicate north. (Attach a separate sheet if space here is not sufficient) MgSS , 1536 ❑ AVE, 7 s❑'j� Vi,VEgniO � ❑ °k R ❑4 (�9��' II❑ 4 ❑�O ❑„�12 P4;� I� ❑ q I� aim '76 Ij ❑ a.o0 �y,U Recorded by Anne Grady d _ ae E, Organization Lexington Historical Commission Date April, 1984 (Staple additional sheets here) ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE of area. (Describe physical setting, general character, and architecturally significant structures). Winthrop Road rises gently from Massachusetts Avenue and, making a slight curve, joins Highland Avenue as though it was a continuation of that street. The actual westerly end of Winthrop Road, put in later in the twentieth century, is a road which turns to the west at the beginning of Highland Avenue. There are over a dozen substantial houses in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century picturesque styles on the portion of Winthrop Road laid out in 1894: The house at 10 Winthrop Road is one of the most interesing Shingle Style dwellings in Lexington. The house at 1508 Massachusetts Avenue is an elegant composition of curved bays and expansive porches accented with dormers with semicircular pediments. It was probably designed by the same architect (Samuel D. Kelley) who designed two other buildings for the Sherburne family (one is at 276 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; the other at 11 Percy Road, Lexington, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places). Houses at 1, (see Continuation Sheet) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE of area. (Explain development of area, what caused it, and how it affected community; be specific). The land in the area of Winthrop Road was the part of the farm of Benjamin Merriam in the eighteenth century. Merriam's house, since moved to Woburn Street, was entered by the retreating British on April 19, 1775 and he suffered losses of L223. In the nineteenth century, the land passed to John Viles. Viles' daughter, Mary, inherited the property. She married Benjamin F. Tenney, a stockbroker, in 18601and in 1893 they had David Tuttle, local contractor, build them the house at 1536 Massachusetts Avenue. Their daughter, Maud, married Frank Foster Sherburne, a.member of the firm of Eastabrook and Company and a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. Sherburne's family had been summer residents of Lexington for a number of years, and about this time other members of the family took up permanent residence in the Percy Road area. F.F. Sherburne and his wife built a large house adjacent to her parents' at 1508 Massachusetts Avenue in 1891. The local paper noted on August 3, 1894, "Mr. F.F. Sherburne has opened up a street on the old Viles place recently purchased by him, which enters Main Street between his and Tenney's house. He proposed to connect the street to Highland Avenue. The land opened up by this street is high and offers unusual advantages for building lots." The street was evidently intended to be on a lesser scale a haven for commuters similar to the Munroe Hill and Meriam Hill neighborhoods, and the same kind of substantial homes were built here. Construction did not proceed very quickly. By 1898 only four houses had been built. By 1906, however, most of the beginning of the street was built up. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume I, p. 174. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 692, 616. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. (see Continuation Sheet) 2M-6/80 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CC*ff SSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Ca=ity: Lexington Form No: M Property Name: Winthrop Road Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. 5, 9, and 17 Winthrop Road, built before 1898, are in the Lexington tradition of Shingle Style vernacular structures with Queen Anne elements. Both of Lexington's most prominent local late nineteenth century builders built houses here: David Tuttle, 1508 and 1536 Massachusetts Avenue; and Abram C. Washburn, 9 Winthrop Road. (All three were very likely built from architect's designs.) At least four houses were designed by Willard Brown, Lexington's highly original local early twentieth century architect. Brown's houses here exhibit his Arts and Crafts/Shingle Style leanings (#20), and his early twentieth century rational/prairie style (#11, 15), as well as his Colonial Revival Style design (one of the houses between #12 and #18). Although mid -twentieth century houses have been built on several lots, — the architectural integrity of the area remains substantial. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Letter from Edwin B. Worthen to Eugene J. Viano, February 7, 1941. Lexington Historical Society archives. - Lexington Minute Man, August 3, 1894, May 31, 1895. 1852 map 1875 atlas 1889 atlas 1906 atlas 1887 Directory 1894 Directory 1899 Directory 1906 Directory Staple to Inventory form at bottom INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 DATA SHEET AREA M WINTHROP ROAD Town Property Address LEXINGTON WINTHROP ROAD Area(s) Form No. MHC Address Name Style Architect/Builder Date 4 (if known) 145 1508 Mass. Ave. F. Foster Sherburne Colonial Revival David A. Tuttle/ 1891 House S.D. Kelley? 2 1536 Mass. Ave. Benjamin F. Tenney Colonial Revival 1893 House 1 1 Winthrop Road Italianate/Colonial Revival c.1880 (moved here in 1920s) 466 5 Winthrop Road Walter R. Champncy Shingle Style 1894 House 7 Winthrop Road Herbert L. Norris Colonial Revival 1904 House 467 9 Winthrop Road Walter Luke House Colonial Revival Abram C. 1894 Washburn 468 10 WinthropRoad A.E. Watson House Shingle Style 1900 469 11 WinthropRoad HenryPiper House Colonial Revival/Craftsman Willard D. Brown? 1905 470 12 Winthrop Road Frederic Galloupe Colonial Revival 1894 House 14 WinthropRoad Oscar Patch House Colonial Revival 1903 471 15 Winthrop Road J. Chester Hutchinson Colonial Revival/Craftsman Willard D. Brown 1905 House T.H. O'Connor, bldr. 16 Winthrop Road James Clahane House Abram C. 1907 Washburn 472 17 Winthrop Road Walter Wheeler Shingle Style/Queen Anne Hawkins & 1895-6 Rowse House Mitchell, bldrs. 18 WinthropRoad Frank Locke House Colonial Revival 1906 473 20 WinthropRoad Harold Lamont House Craftsman Willard D. Brown 1915 474 21 Winthrop Road Arthur F. Turner English Revival 1900 House 25 WinthropRoad William Smith House Colonial Revival 1 1906 Updated by Lisa Mausolf, November 2009