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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 84 CLIFFS AVENUE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2208 Street) until at least 1950, at which time it encompassed a substantial farmhouse and greenhouse and two other large outbuildings. The area was likely developed in response to the electric street railway, which began service on Mass. Avenue in 1899. Like Liberty Heights to the south of Massachusetts Avenue (which it resembles, architecturally; LEX.Q), this neighborhood—known as Massachusetts Avenue Terrace and Arlington Heights Terrace—was laid out by Jacob W. Wilbur, a prolific Brookline developer. Wilbur typically sited his subdivisions near streetcar lines and appealed to working class residents. Cliffe Avenue was laid out by 1922, when 13 households were located on the street, all in unnumbered houses. The section of Cliffe Avenue on which this building stands is not illustrated in the 1927 map, but the house at#84 appears in its present configuration by 1935. Its first known occupants are Albert J. Egan, a motorman with the Boston Elevated company, and his wife Elizabeth, who are identified on Cliffe Avenue as early as 1918, when the houses had no street numbers; they were certainly at this address by 1930. In 1934, Albert Egan and a much younger Blanche E. Egan, possibly his daughter, occupied the house. Subsequent residents of the property, from at least 1945 through 1965, included the Przyjemski family, which consisted of the elderly Alexandra, John, an upholsterer, and his wife Marcella in 1945 and 1955; and John, Marcella, and their two sons (both in the Navy) in 1965. The present owner of the house is Paul Przyjemski. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Arlington Directories: 1910. Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935, 1935/1950. Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries. http://historicsurveV.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1918, 1922, 1926, 1934, 1936 Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. . Form A– Liberty Heights, LEX.Q. Prepared by Anne Grady and Nancy Seasholes, 1984 and 2001. U.S. Census: 1910, 1920, 1930. SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES „t r d r �rr Garage: Front(fagade) elevation Continuation sheet 3