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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Fonn No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCMIISSION Vd <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 2030 Massachusetts Ave <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> Contains Rufus Porter murals, first and second floors (see 35 mm slides, <br /> Lexington Historical Society) . <br /> Simon W. Robinson was the owner in the mid-1850s. On the 1889 map (Walker) , <br /> H. Wiggin is living here. The house was moved here in 1894-95-96, when Dr. J. <br /> Odin Tilton built the house at 11 Harrington Road (see correspondence between <br /> S.L. Whipple and present owner Alan Bedford, archives of the Lexington Historical <br /> Society) . <br /> Before it was moved, in the early 1890s, it was owned by Edward Harold <br /> Crosby, theater critic for the Boston Post, whose wife was formerly Dedora B. <br /> Robbins, daughter of Eli Martin Robbins. They summered in this house, living <br /> iri Boston during the winter. The house wsa the scene of many social gatherings <br /> of theater people and Brahmins during the Crosby occupancy. <br /> S. Lawrence Whipple, 1984 <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />