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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 1404 MASS. AVENUE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 135 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> On September 27, 1889 the Lexington Minute-Jean reported: <br /> Mr. J. L.Norris,to whom is due the credit of the healthy growth in the population on the hill just off of <br /> Bloomfield street, is now erecting a residence for his own and family's occupancy. It is to be finely located on <br /> the corner of Bloomfield and Main streets. <br /> John L.Norris (1839-1919)was the developer and contractor responsible for much of the building activity in the <br /> Bloomfield Street area in the 1880s. Norris,who had previously built the Norris Block at the Center and a group of <br /> cottages on Hancock Avenue, initially lived in the house at 1430 Massachusetts Avenue(corner of Bloomfield Street) <br /> before building this new Queen Anne-style house at 1404 Massachusetts Avenue in the late 1880s. His brother George <br /> built the house at 39 Highland Avenue in 1888. John L.Norris was also a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. He <br /> lived here until his death in 1919. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington,p. 496. <br /> Lexington Directories, various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man, September 27, 1889. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census Records, 1900-1930. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> June 2009 <br />