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7. Original owner (if known) <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 /> Descrip: door Greek Revival wide entablature; side pilasters flanking side lights; panels <br /> beneath lights with inset ornamental panels. Porch across front, lst, floor level only, <br /> square posts, dentil course across porch cornice, mini-dentils on posts at capitals. <br /> (heavily overgrown arborvitae mask front; white picket fence at sidewalk)Ell with chimney, <br /> in rear. <br /> Former home of Charles A. Butters and of his son, Frank Viles Butters <br /> (see Hudson, Volume II) . C.A. Butters was in the grocery business in Lexington <br /> Center in the block now numbered 1768 Massachusetts Avenue. C.A. Butters <br /> married Sarah Ann Viles, whose father owned land in this vicinity (see history <br /> of Meriam-Viles house, now 37 Woburn Street) . He married in 1834. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, <br /> early maps, etc.) <br />