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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This is a well preserved example of the house type built so frequently in <br /> East Lexington in the first third of the nineteenth century: five bays wide, <br /> one room deep, with rear chimneys. Finishes of this house are simple. The <br /> doorway is of unusual design; both pilaster strips and the lintel board have <br /> panels which are curved at the end. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was built by John Sullivan Brown (b. 1806) , grandson of Francis <br /> Brown who fought as a Minute Man on April 19, 1775 and who kept a tavern at 620 <br /> Massachusetts Avenue in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. <br /> Between 1875 and 1899 the house was owned by John L. Holbrook, a carpenter <br /> at-he car shops in East Cambridge. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 68. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> 1830 map <br /> 1853 map <br /> 1875 atlas <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1898 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 1887 Directory 1899 Directory <br /> 1894 Directory 1906 Directory <br /> 10M - 7/f <br />