Historical Properties

Weston Water Company & Weston Electric Light Company

The 1875 and 1889 atlases of Middlesex County show nothing in the Warren Avenue Area - no roads, no houses, no outbuildings, no commercial structures. The first building appears to have been the Weston Water Company/ Weston Electric Company at 71 Warren Avenue (1896, MHC 218, Map #15), a simple, utilitarian 1 1/2 story brick and frame structure. 

The building is still owned by the town through the Affordable Housing Trust. Working with the Historical Commission, the exterior has been largely preserved. The building is now a three-family apartment.

The first building in the area, built in 1896

Weston Water Company and Weston Electric Light Company

1900 Residential Building

Residential building commenced in earnest about 1900, as local farmer William Whittemore and water company superintendent Percy Warren began selling lots and encouraging house construction. A 1905 article in the local newspaper reported that, with several houses about to be finished, there would be a total of 11 houses in the neighborhood.

Marie Subelia House

The Marie Subelia House at 16 Warren Place (1903, MHC 1140, Map #31) is a simple 1-1/2 story late Queen Anne house with a cross gable roof and wrap-around porch with square porch posts, a simple railing, and latticework at the base. 

16 Warren Place

16 Warren Place

William Foote House

The 2 ½-story William Foote House at 31 Warren Avenue (by 1905, MHC 1116, Map #6) is another late Queen Anne example oriented with the gable end to the street. The exterior originally had clapboards on the first story and shingles above. 

The house at 13 Warren Lane (by 1905, MHC 1129, Map #20) is of similar style and vintage and includes simple Queen Anne details such as the decorative square stair hall window.

13 Warren Lane

13 Warren Lane

Percy Warren House

The Percy Warren House at 74 Warren Avenue (1905, MHC 1124, Map #14), a substantial shingled Four Square, has a fieldstone foundation, one-story hip-roofed porch, and central hipped dormer. 

William J. Bartlett House

Also among the first 11 houses was the William J. Bartlett House at 61 Warren Avenue (by 1905, MHC 1122, Map #12), which includes a 1 1/2 story barn with a central wall gable. The side-gable house has turned porch posts on the one-story porch across the front and also includes Colonial Revival details that may be later in date, such as wooden shutters with decorative cut-outs.

Beriah Ogilvie House

The 2 1/2 story Beriah Ogilvie House at 39 Warren Avenue (1910, MHC 1119, Map #8) is sited with the gable end to the street but utilizes Colonial Revival features such as the two-story bay window at offset-right and the one-bay, one-story hipped porch at offset left, sheltering the entrance door.  

39 Warren Avenue

Beriah Ogilvie and his family lived in this house at 39 Warren Avenue, constructed in 1910

1920s Houses

Notable 1920s houses include the 1 1/2 story bungalow at 11 Warren Place (c. 1920, MHC 1137, Map #28), with its characteristic tapered porch posts. This house has been remodeled in a way that is sensitive to the original design. 

A simple 1920’s Tudor example at 43 Warren Avenue (c. 1925, MHC 1121, Map #11) has remained largely intact, including its steep-roofed entrance vestibule and wood-board shutters. 

The corner of Warren Avenue and Warren Place is anchored by two simple 1930s Colonial Revival houses similar in scale, massing and setback, at one and 5 Warren Avenue, (c. 1935, MHC 1135 and 1136, Map #26 and 27).

11 Warren Place

11 Warren Place