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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address Lexington 410 Marrett Rd. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 642 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) sold again in 1878 to James O'Brien; during this period Joe Dane and his family reportedly occupied the farmhouse at 410 Marrett. In 1890 Edward L. Payson, president of the Emerson Piano Company in Boston,bought the property and called it Grassland Stock Farm. Payson raised thoroughbred horses and built a huge bam for them at the southwest corner of Marrett Rd. and Spring St. where the Woodhaven Wallpaper and Paint store is now located. An ad in the 1899 Lexington Directory read: "Grassland. Golddust-Morgan horses. Horses Boarded Winter and Summer. Roadsters and Family Horses for Sale,thoroughly broken and safe. Visitors welcome." During Payson's ownership,the house at 410 Marrett Rd. was occupied by John Riley,the farm's stableman, and his family. Payson owned the farm until 1917. In 1922 the former Grassland Farm was acquired by Neil McIntosh, who divided it up into small house lots;the lot containing the house at 410 Marrett Rd. was sold in 1923. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued) Smith, George O. "The Milk Business and Milk Men of Earlier Days." Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society 2 (1900): 194. Tuttle, David Ainsworth. List of buildings erected in Lexington. Presented to the Lexington Historical Society, April 4, 1904. On file at Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA. Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 110-11.