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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET [;Name: <br /> : Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCKIISSION <br /> .Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> 2001 Massachusetts Ave <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> This house was built in the 1890s by Francis Edward Ballard. Formerly <br /> it had wrap-around porch and was considered one of the showplaces of Lexington <br /> until its mutilation by the owner, Merlin Ladd, about 1951 or 1952, at which <br /> time the porch was removed and vertical boarding installed on the bay. <br /> (Aluminum siding may have been installed at this time.) <br /> The Ballard family came to Lexington in 1871 (see Hudson, Volume II, p. 20) <br /> and first lived in a house (now razed) that stood where the driveway into <br /> Lexington Gardens, 93 Hancock Street, now is. The family was very prominent in <br /> Lexington, various members being active in Scouting, Field and Garden Club, <br /> First Parish Church, and town affairs. <br /> The contractor for the building was C.H. Meade 'of Boston (Lexington Minute <br /> Man, June 16, 1893) . When constructed, the house was painted "an attractive <br /> combination of salmon tint and cream color" (Lexington Minute Man, October 6, <br /> 1893) . <br /> The building has some characteristics of a design by Hartwell and <br /> Richardson: polygonal and semicircular turrets with peaked roofs and a steep <br /> roof pitch. The architects had recently designed the Hancock School and the <br /> A.E. Scott mansion in town and perhaps the Ballards also sought their services. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> Anne Grady, 1984 <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />