" Brian tell us about this -- hill neighborhood when was it developed what's the late nineteen censure of the street -- was from the 1880s -- farmland and have been subdivided and the lots that's the story usually and this is one of the most prominent houses on top of the -- here isn't it absolutely it's a really great example of queen Anne style architecture what makes it we end. What you're regularity of the shapes and look at your got a tower over one sided table here in the front high hip roof. Ballwind over there there's nothing symmetrical about it so that there -- all sorts of different elements blended together absolutely and then a number of decorative elements that you see inside as well the show over the window the -- over the door. Some kind of cardigan decorative work that was inside and outside of buildings like this detailing really catches my -- is the condition that slate roof that's just the condition but that. That the workmanship that went into creating that look at the curb slates. Both on the dormer there and if you look at that tower can you imagine each one of those displaced on that tower has to be individually cut and fitted to create that fish scale pattern desert and there's a terrific nice detail that's in the copper cresting which doesn't -- a lot of buildings of the sort. Now Brian what he's going to cost to build this house with house was estimated to cost 25000 dollars when the builders started but it end up costing 50000. It's amazing and I understand it's an incredible preservation because it belonged to Lesley College all the you're having a single owner for a long time really helps preserve a building. OK well let's take a look inside sure."

" Content of large solid job. And then in instead this was one of the most expensive houses built in Cambridge and this hallway was certainly a good part of that expense. But the hallways more than just a place to come and take got rejected structure for queen Anne house like this it was meant to be kind of great living hall and the fireplace was going to creative her warm center for what's in the house. Little in the backseat by the staircases of twists in the cozy spot. An analyst paneling -- you know the what what catches your right immediately is the condition of all this beautiful. Golden no quarters on golden don't look at all of them the detailing the grain of the quartersawn oak. In there the condition though it's never been created it's never been touched not a -- it -- an indictment -- to mark and and I think you can see a lot of detail the carving is really crisp look over and above the mentally evidently there's a pair of Griffin's holding onto and heard them. Now do you suppose that'll hand carved I would take it we have carved by the way that the background is the chisel marks these wonderful tangles that stand almost free. And in this undercutting hear the lead which you can only get through through and currently can't step without punishing work that kind of death yes but it these doors but we can going through here I would suspect so. Again everything's quarter sawn -- they glide perfectly like the data were put in. What room do you suppose this one's he'll probably is a dining room. An error by the side -- here would give you good indicator of -- indeed and it's not a vast room it may be sixteen by 21. But what detailing again her very cleverly worked into the drawers of the side were well these are grown. And you're right -- the bottom of the shelves -- pool. Is the whole house done in golden -- like this. That is principally defined in the first floor of the major public rooms minutes ago that might get simpler but it depends on the house. This is really grand staircase down. It looks like the same kind of treatment that we have over my house in terms of the the three different balusters times that your. Well again thinking about the free classic. These are taken from colonial revival in the corner of -- taste the Georgian taste for the United States to find -- houses fancy houses concentric that like that so it could have been here. Indeed so it's it's it's a Vito that that we see in. Eighteenth century -- houses sure and here a century and a half later on most of their borrowing and putting it back to work we're using a very different to to make a screen appeared a creative way of looking through a picturesque. Way where would never been used in the Georgian period well we have something similar in in our place between the second and third floor -- screen that certain what's known as the staircase going up but you don't look directly into the third one. The stain -- behind us here. Brought all the way up to corners that typical look for the queen and and and that period yes because what what they've done is they've brought us close the corners you possibly can. More let's -- instruction doesn't matter senator windows right up there they're defying the structures that are. Now I understand that the -- the problem with the buckling of the glass that you see here is something that occurred recently when they added glass panels -- plexiglass panels to the weather side. But that's my understanding -- for conservation. It's a it's a real lesson the more you tinker with an old system -- true soften more damaging do indeed in this case creating a little. Basically -- greenhouse between the plexiglass window to create those temperatures that excited extreme heat melted the lead canes and reckless it lasted I believe the south faces are good at a lot of songs really make that happen."