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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 1894 MASS. AVE. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING $� 69 <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> It appears that there is a house on this site at the time of the 1853 map, owned by L.W. Wright(1821-1888). The 1889 <br /> map seems to show this as one of two side-by-side houses (also 1900 Mass Ave?)owned by A.E. Wright(Wright's <br /> widow—Abigail Estabrook Wright). <br /> According to directories, by 1894 this house was occupied by George H. Streeter. Streeter was born in Roxbury in 1860 <br /> and came to Lexington in 1887. He married Alice Wright, daughter of Luke Wellington Wright(see above)in 1887. <br /> George Streeter operated a kitchen furnishings store on Boylston Street in Boston. <br /> Various improvements were made to the house during the Streeter's ownership. The latest improvement was described <br /> by the Minute-man on April 8, 1905: <br /> The old Wright place opposite the Battle Green,now owned by George H. Streeter and which has been so <br /> improved as to almost lose its old-time identity, is having its piazza area still further increased to take in quite a <br /> large area of space. <br /> George and Alice Streeter were still living here in 1942. The present owner, Donald Forg, purchased the property about <br /> 1967. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 685, 782. <br /> Lexington directories, various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-man,April 8, 1905. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> 1853 & 1889 Lexington maps. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> July 2009 <br />