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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 922 MASS. AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 23 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> The original owner of this house was reportedly Eliza Lakin Colburn. On the 1853 map it appears that this property is <br /> labeled as being owned by L. Pierce or H. Pierce while the house across the street is labeled"Lakin". This appears to be <br /> an error on the map. <br /> The 1898 map indicates that the owner was then H. Bowers. By 1894 directories indicate that milk dealer Lewis Gossom <br /> was living here as was his son Arthur, also in the milk business. In 1901 the Minute-man reported that Lewis Gossom <br /> had purchased the house and land which he had rented for many years from H. Bowers of Somerville(Minute-Man,Nov. <br /> 23, 1901). Although Lewis Gossom died in 1904, his widow, Sarah,was still living here in 1932. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-man,November 23, 1901. <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 />