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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCHd SSION (p <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 1984 Massachusetts Ave <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> This house was formerly occupied (after 1850) by Joel Viles (b. 1793, d. <br /> 1873 -- see Hudson, Volume II, p. 720) . He represented Lexington in the State <br /> Convention of 1853 to revise state constitution and also he was a selectman for <br /> ten years. Before living here, he kept the Bull Tavern (or Viles Tavern) at <br /> the junction of Marrett Road and Marrett Street, which he operated from 1820 <br /> until after 1850. (See Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume <br /> I; also archives of the Lexington Historical Society [reminiscences of Everett <br /> M. Mulliken] .) <br /> In the 1930s these premises were operated as a tearoom, and in the 1940s <br /> and 1950s as an antiques shop by the Fosters. <br /> Tradition says that in the early 1800s the owner (a Mr. Scott?) was <br /> carrying on a fur dressing business here and also using the underground struc- <br /> ture (still existing) as a potting shed. <br /> Deeds to the property can be traced to Nathan Munroe, March 23, 1813 (212- <br /> 101) . <br /> For many years in the mid-1800s it was a double house. <br /> (Source: see acc. #6642 in the archives of the Lexington Historical Society.) <br /> In the early 1900s until his death in 1921, Albert S. McDonald lived here <br /> and raised flowers and plants for his retail florist shop in Boston (Temple <br /> Place) . His greenhouses were behind the present house. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />