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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address LEXINGTON 1948 MASS. AVE. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 64 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: From 1925 to his death in 1966 this was the home of prominent and lifelong Lexington resident William Roger Greeley. Greeley was a prominent architect, conservationist and planner as well as a distinguished Unitarian layman. Greeley was born in Lexington in 1881 and lived here for his entire life except for the year he served as architect of Camp Miles Standish at the beginning of World War 11. He graduated with a B.S. in architecture from M.I.T. in 1902 and received his master's degree the following year. Years later he received an honorary Doctor's degree from Boston University,where he served as a trustee. Greeley worked in the office of Boston architect R. Clipston Sturgis from 1903 to 1913 during which time he supervised the construction of the marble wing additions to the Massachusetts State House. The rest of his career was spent with the firm of Kilham, Hopkins, Greeley and Brodie, designing residences, city and town halls, libraries, schools and churches. He was a president of the Boston Architectural Club,the Boston Society of Architects,the Mass. Federation of Planning Boards,the New England Town Planning Association,the Massachusetts Trustees of Public Reservations and the Boston Building Congress. Among the Lexington buildings designed by him are the Depot(renovations), Town Hall and office buildings, an addition to the Cary Library, several houses including the one he built for his family at 38 Somerset Road, Franklin School and the additions or renovations of Adams,Franklin,Hancock,Munroe, and Parker Schools. W.R. Greeley was also involved in various town affairs. He was an active member of the Town Meeting for 62 years, served on the Planning Board,was president of the Lexington Historical Society and moderator of his church,the First Parish in Lexington. In 1967 the property was acquired by Ellen Bryant,who still owns it today. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913,vol. 2, p. 251. Lexington Minute-Man, October 13, 1966. Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. Supplement prepared by: Lisa Mausolf July 2009