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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Foran No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCT�i�IISSION <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name:1508 Massachusetts Ave. <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> This house was built for F. Foster Sherburne by David Ainsworth Tuttle. <br /> The architect was perhaps Samuel D. Kelley. It was built in 1891 (see the <br /> Lexington Historical Society archives, Acc. #1204) . <br /> The Sherburne family first settled in Lexington in 1870 and was very <br /> prominent. Reuben Butterfield Sherburne was an officer and agent of the Boston <br /> and Concord Boating Company, the successor to the Middlesex Canal Associates. <br /> Reuben Sherburne's three grandsons, Warren R. , F. Foster, and Reuben B. , <br /> were very successful businessmen and lived in three substantial Lexington homes, <br /> reflecting period architecture. <br /> F. Foster Sherburne's father-in-law, Benjamin F. Tenney, built the house <br /> at .1536 Massachusetts Avenue (see form) . <br /> In the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s, this was the home of James J. Walsh, a <br /> wool broker. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />