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Show property's location in relation Style shingle style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates)
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' Approx. acreage 4.0598 ft,2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Munroe Hill; residential street
Organization Lexington Historical Commission developed primarily at the turn of the
Date March, 1984 twentieth century.
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- ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is one of several ample Shingle Style houses built on Munroe Hill
in the 1890s. Features include a porch with paired, splayed posts, bay
window with polygonal roof, and dormer windows with diamond panes.
HIST ICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
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The house was built by Mrs. George L. Stowell, the wife of a teacher
living on Massachusetts Avenue near Percy Road. The house was assessed in
1897 for $7,500. After 1900 Charles Poor Briggs, a dentist in Boston,
purchased the house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 61. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Letter from E.B. Worthen to Dr. H.J. Crumb, October 22, 1948. Worthen Collec-
tion, Cary Library.
1906 atlas
1894 Directory
1899 Directory
1906 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 27 ELIOT ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 504
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Despite information contained in the 1984 form for this property, it appears that this house was constructed in 1899 for
Dr. Charles P. Briggs, a Boston dentist. A brief mention in the Lexington Minute-Man on February 10, 1899 noted that
two or three houses were to be built in the Mt. Vernon district in the spring including houses for Dr. Chas. P. Briggs and
Charles Garrison(see 23 Eliot Road). (No evidence of a Stowell connection to the house was noted—the information
cited may instead refer to the George Stowell House at 5 Pelham Road.) Dr. Charles and his wife, Gertrude, continued to
live at 27 Eliot Road until at least 1942.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,Feb. 10, 1899.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
January 2009