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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 72 LOWELL ST.
<br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
<br />220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
<br />Continuation sheet 6
<br /> LEX.658
<br />In 1930 Frank H. Reed and his wife were living on Lowell Street, either at 51 (apparently not extant) or 72, and son Haskell, his
<br />wife, and their children Haskell W., Lawrence B., Vivian, and Marjorie were in the other house. Frank Reed died in 1937, and in 1940 son Haskell is listed at 72 Lowell Street as a dairy products retailer living with his wife and the three younger children; next
<br />door was son Haskell W., a dairy product route foreman, with his wife Thelma F. Soderquist, whom he married in 1938, and their daughter Vickery. In 1942 Haskell was working for the dairy goods producer David Buttrick Company in Arlington, to whom he
<br />had sold his business seven years earlier, and he died in March 1943 at the age of 49.
<br />In 1947 Frank H. Reed’s brother Malcolm apparently transferred his interest in 72 Lowell Street homestead to the widowed Vivien B. Reed, and in October of that year Vivien subdivided the property. In 1964 she transferred title to the house and its lot to
<br />her son Haskell W. and his wife and other parcels to her children Marjorie, Lawrence, and Vivien. The siblings sold their shares of the farm in March 1981 to the realty trust of Alfred S. Busa and Daniel P. Busa, thus ending almost two centuries of Reed
<br />family ownership.6
<br />The Busas were brothers, sons of Italian immigrants Antonio and Lillian Galletta Busa, who had grown up on their parents’ farm at 46 Lowell Street. They sold the 72 Lowell Street property seven months after acquiring it to Ellen T. Curtiss, who owned it for
<br />four years. Frank A. and Janet M. Kern bought the property from Hon-Bui David Hui and Jenice S. Chou in 1997. The Kerns were the owners of record of 72 Lowell Street in 2021.7
<br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Ancestry.com Cambridge, MA. Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Lexington, MA. Cary Library. Archives & Collections. Lexington, MA. Lexington Historical Society. Archives & Collections Lexington, MA. Town of Lexington. Assessors' Office. Valuation Lists. Lexington, MA. Town of Lexington. Town Reports. 1849-present. Cutter, William Richard. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of
<br />Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1908. Hurd, D. Hamilton, ed. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent
<br />Men. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1890. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1868. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913. Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs. Lexington MA: Lexington Historical Society, 1980.
<br />Lexington Directory. various years. Lexington Minute-man. 1871-present. Maps and Atlases Hales, John G. Plan of the Town of Lexington in the County of Middlesex. Boston: Pendleton's Lithography, 1830. Walling, Henry F. Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: Smith & Bumstead, 1856. Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Middlesex Massachusetts. New York: J.B. Beers & Co., 1875. Walker, George H. & Co. Atlas of Middlesex County. Boston: George H. Walker & Co., 1889. Stadley, George W. & Co. Atlas of the Towns of Watertown, Belmont, Arlington and Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George W. Stadley & Co., 1898. Walker, George H. & Co. Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker & Co., 1906.
<br /> 6 Haskell W. Reed, Lexington; Marjorie Knight, Sutton NH; Lawrence B. Reed, Antrim NH; Vivien Parish, Santa Barbara CA, to Alfred S. Busa and Daniel P. Busa, trustees A&D Realty Trust, 10 March 1981, MSD 14237:348. 7 Alfred S. Busa and Daniel P. Busa, trustees A&D Realty Trust, to Ellen T. Curtiss, 72 Lowell Street, 1 October 1981, MSD 14434:333; Ellen T. Curtiss, Westford, to Hon-Bui David Hui and Jenice S. Chou, 72 Lowell Street, 23 May 1985, MSD 16181:216; Hon-Bui David Hui and Jenice S. Chou, Palo Alto CA, to Frank A. and Janet M. Kern, 72 Lowell Street, 13 October 1997, MSD 27770:222; Frank A. and Janet M. Kern, trustee 72 Lowell Street Nominee Trust, to Frank A. and Janet M. Kern, 72 Lowell Street, 19 May 2009, MSD 52837. The 72 Lowell Street house may appear on these plans, none of which are viewable on the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds website by the citations provided in deeds—on Lot D on “Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass.,” 14237:348; on “Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass.,” 7 July 1980; and on Lot B-2 on “Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass.,” 17 October 1947, 7212:114.
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