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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address Lexington 53 Hancock St. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 730 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) In 1868 Harris sold the house to Brooks T. Batcheller(1813-1902),a self-made man who had begun as a towboy on the Middlesex Canal, became a stage driver when the canal was discontinued,then a stable keeper in Boston, and moved to Lexington in 1868 where he became a prominent citizen—he was on the first board of trustees of the Lexington Savings Bank when it was established in 1871 and elected to the state senate in 1874. The Batchellers may have added the front ell, for it is shown on an 1875 map. In 1898 the Batchellers sold the house and moved in with their son Warren, who lived at 46 Hancock St. (MHC#725). The house was owned from 1901 to 1910 by James T. Davis,the owner specified on Tuttle's 1904 list, and between 1910 and 1915 by Edward C. Graves, who made some alterations. The most extensive alterations,however,were made after the house was acquired in 1915 by Edward C. Stone,the U.S. manager of Employees Liability Assurance Co. v- N1� Roll 4 8,Negative#23