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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) <br /> Off center front door with square window. Porch from center front wrap around <br /> right side. 3 sided 2 story bay with Peakdroof left front. Right front gable <br /> w/round top attic window. Double window right of front door w/lead clear glass. <br /> 2 chimney_-� balanced at peak. Left side deck and balcony off second floor side <br /> and rear. <br /> ._ One of the few frankly Shingle Style houses on Meriam Hill, this house is <br /> a balanced composition with three-sided turret to the left of the facade and a <br /> projecting rectangular bay to the right. Dentil courses and modillions at the <br /> eaves are decorative features. Porches on the sides and rear take advantage <br /> of the panoramic view to the west. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history <br /> and how the building relates to the development of the community) <br /> Historic atlases seem to indicate that this property belonged to C.C. <br /> Goodwin until after 1906. However, directories and a long time resident <br /> indicate that the house was built and occupied by Frederick Lincoln Emery, <br /> - a lawyer in Boston. Emery's father, George, an accountant, built a substantial <br /> house on the corner of Meriam and Stetson streets a decade earlier. F.L. Emery <br /> was president of the Field and Garden Club of Lexington and of the Mt. Pleasant <br /> Home for Aged Men and Women in Boston. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 188. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Lexington Minute Man, February 2, 1894. <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1889 atlas 1906 atlas <br /> 20h1-2/80 <br /> 1894 Directory 1899 Directory 1906 Directory <br />