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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 910-912 MASS. AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 236 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> On the 1853 map it appears that this property is labeled as being owned by L. Pierce or H. Pierce while the house across <br /> the street is labeled G. Stearns. These houses appear to have been juxtaposed on the map. <br /> According to E.B. Worthen,the house was occupied by George Stearns,the last of the long-prominent Stearns family to <br /> live in Lexington. George A. Stearns was born in 1846 and married Emma Hovey in 1877. He was a milkman. The <br /> couple appeared to be living here by 1880. Stearns is shown as the owner on the 1898 and the 1906 map although there is <br /> no listing for the couple in the directories of that period so it may have been rented out. <br /> By 1915 the property was occupied by Peter Canessa. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various dates. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998, p. 45. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> June 2009 <br />