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7. Original owner (if }mown) <br /> Original use <br /> Subsequent uses (if any) and dates <br /> 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) <br /> Aboriginal Conservation Recreation <br /> Agricultural Education Religion <br /> Architectural Exploration/ Science/ <br /> The Arts settlement invention <br /> Commerce Industry Social/ <br /> Communication Military Humanitarian <br /> Community development Political . Transportation <br /> 9. Historical Significance (include explanation of themes checked above) <br /> Y <br /> Active slaughtering business carved on in the barn at the rear in 19th c. <br /> (contact owner.) <br /> Descrip. cont: simple entablature; 2 story projecting addition w. field-stone, <br /> foundation right rear; two story ell with door, chimney left rear- <br /> 3 bays to door, 1 story shed attached to last two bays of ell. <br /> Two story barn attached at riF.ht angle to-fear of ell. <br /> Windows 6 x 6. <br /> This was'the former home of Charles Herbert Lowe (see Hudson, Volume II) , & 6L- (f_.Y <br /> who married Elizabeth Dinwoodie, the daughter of the station agent at the East <br /> Lexington Depot (David Dinwoodie) . Their daughter, Marion D. Lowe, married <br /> Edmund P. Hoxie. <br /> (884 Massachusetts Avenue was not.assigned a double number until about <br /> 1955.) <br /> Eli Whitney was in business with Michael Horton as cobblers; their shop <br /> was situated on the east corner of the lower end of Curve Street and Massachu- <br /> setts Avenue. <br /> (See Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 39.) <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, <br /> early maps, etc.) <br />