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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 87 CLIFFS AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2209 <br /> Street) until at least 1950, at which time it encompassed a substantial farmhouse and greenhouse and two other large <br /> outbuildings. <br /> The area was likely developed in response to the electric street railway, which began service on Mass. Avenue in 1899. Like <br /> Liberty Heights to the south of Massachusetts Avenue (which it resembles, architecturally; LEX.Q), this neighborhood—known <br /> as Massachusetts Avenue Terrace and Arlington Heights Terrace—was laid out by Jacob W. Wilbur, a prolific Brookline <br /> developer. Wilbur typically sited his subdivisions near streetcar lines and appealed to working class residents. <br /> Cliffe Avenue was laid out by 1922, when 13 households were located on the street, all in unnumbered houses. The section of <br /> Cliffe Avenue on which this building stands is not illustrated in the 1927 map, but the house at#87 appears in its present <br /> configuration by 1935. Its first known occupants, from at least 1930 through 1965, were the Julin family. In the former year, the <br /> household consisted of Gustaf, a cabinetmaker and carpenter(born in Sweden; 1880-1967), Vanja, their five sons, and a small <br /> family that boarded with them: Ralph M. Roberts, a building contractor, his wife Alvene, and their young daughter. <br /> Gustaf Julin was identified at this address from 1930 through 1965; Vanja was here at least through 1945. The house officially <br /> became two-family(with the compound street numbers) by 1945, when Edward T. Donahue, in the Navy, and his wife Hilda C. <br /> were living at#89; Gustaf, Vanja, and John (in the Army)were at#87 in that year. In 1955 and 1965, Gustaf Julin lived in the <br /> house with Norman Julin, a plasterer, and his wife Wilhelmina J. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, <br /> 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. <br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, <br /> 1935, 1935/1950. <br /> Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries. <br /> http://historicsurvey.lexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. <br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936 <br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. <br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. <br /> . Form A– Liberty Heights, LEX.Q. Prepared by Anne Grady and Nancy Seasholes, 1984 and 2001. <br /> U.S. Census: 1930. <br /> SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES <br /> d <br /> +j <br /> West (fa(;ade)elevation <br /> Continuation sheet 3 <br />