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iN VtNTUKY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Foran No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HI STORI CAL CCWI SS ION ► oil�D V1 �q <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 2027 Massachusetts Ave <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> Built in 1888 by David Ainsworth Tuttle for Kelsey M. Gilmore. Built as <br /> a summer residence for the Gilmores who lived in Charlestown. Mrs. Kelsey Gilmore <br /> died in November 1889. Their daughter, Katie Sophia, married William W. Reed <br /> in 1890 and they moved into this house and continued to live here until 1916 when <br /> it was sold to the Lexington Home for the Aged. <br /> W.W. Reed was in the real estate business with an office in Boston. Kelsey <br /> Reed and his sister, Sylvia Reed Ballou (both deceased) were born in this house. <br /> (See archives of the Lexington Historical Society and typescript by Sylvia Reed <br /> Ballou.) <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> .ttA . <br /> " f�� K�l se y M . Gi I vnare, c,J�,o G� a-S �� ©���'`�►�� <br /> awx.eJ {�v� �'I/1►! �}. fir. i�t1aj <br /> GLf <br /> I � s o <br /> y wtiGee <br /> leS, C� OM � � -� <br /> tic1 !I PVJ h6us� <br /> I�J�a_ tMsol�� 2Z a9 <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />