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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) one of the ample houses characteristic of eriam Hill, this house with inforuial plan and picturesque massing is embellished with modillions at the eaves and an eyebrow window. There is a dentil course on the pedimented cable on the right side, and one window is finished with a cap which suggests in minimal terms a broken scroll pediment. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) The marriage in 1894 of the offspring of two prominent families in Lexington was an event well-chronicled by the Lexington .iinute Pian. Edward Porter Tierriam was the son of I,latthew H. Merriam whose shoe findings factory on Oakland Street was "the principal manufacturing establishment in Lexington" (Hurd, I, n. 631) . Alice Goodwin was the daughter of Charles C. Goodwin, wholesale druggist in Boston, whose large estate was opposite Stetson Street on ieriam Street. Evidently the father of the bride built them. a house. The Lexington Minute Han (March 16, 1894) states, "Architect and builder John I.ay of agnolia was in Town Tuesday on business relative to the building of a house on Stetson Road for 1dr. Chas. C. Goodwin. The contract was given to the DeVeau Bros. " play, the newspaper continues, was building many houses in the "growing summer resort of :IagnoliaZ, iMassachusettsi" BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Societe, Volume II, pp. 245, 432. Boston: Houghton t'ifflin Companv, 1913. rr p Lexington =`inute flan, march 16, 18941 1889 atlas 1906 atlas :turd, D. Hamilton, ed., History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol. I, (Phila- delphia: J,W. Lewis & Co. , 1890 10M - 7/82