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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 1989 MASS. AVE. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 86 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> The first known owner of this house was Charles K. Tucker who is shown as the owner on the 1853 map. C.K. Tucker <br /> (1811-1889)was born in Concord,New Hampshire and lived in Charlestown before moving to Lexington in 1842. He <br /> served on the board of overseers of the poor and represented the district in the legislature in 1858. He was a wheelwright <br /> by trade and the 1853 shows a shop building to the west of the house. The 1889 map indicates that the house and shop <br /> were then owned by the C.K. Tucker estate. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 708. <br /> Lexington directories, various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,Lexington, 1880. <br /> 1853 & 1889 Lexington maps. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> July 2009 <br />