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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Commmity: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCMISSION Lexington 553 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 177 Concord Avenue <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICA14CE <br /> (and now aluminum siding) cover the brick ends and the doorway is modern. <br /> The clipped gable roof and the clipped upper corners of the gable-end windows <br /> may be the result of a late nineteenth century "modernization." The original <br /> granite gate posts stand at the east end of the driveway off Concord Avenue. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> owned by Cornelius Wellington (1828-1909) , an abolitionist and a wholesale <br /> dry goods dealer whose occupation is listed as "household art rooms" in the <br /> 1887 Directory. In 1897 the farm was owned by a Miss Chase, and in 1906 by <br /> James Kimball, a produce dealer in Boston. <br /> In 1928 the Wellington farm began a new career when it became Minute Man <br /> Golf Club with the homestead as the clubhouse. It continued as such until 1952 <br /> when the clubhouse was remodeled back into a residence and the former farmland <br /> was used for housing developments. <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />