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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house, three bays long, two wide, with a narrow center brick chimney, <br /> a fieldstone foundation, and a door hood supported by scrolled brackets, is <br /> similar to many of the late nineteenth century houses in the Woburn Street area. <br /> In this case, however, the house may have been built in the early nineteenth- <br /> century <br /> ineteenthcentury as a shoemaker's shop and remodeled into a house; it was moved to this <br /> location from elsewhere in Lexington. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> This house was originally on Massachusetts Avenue on the lot where <br /> Decelle's is located today. The property was owned in the eighteenth century <br /> by Jonathan Smith whose son-in-law, Joshua Russell, built a house on it in 1792. <br /> Russell was a shoemaker and also had a shoemaker's shop near the house. About <br /> - 1855 the property was acquired by Freeborn F. Raymond and, according to the <br /> former archivist of the Lexington Historical Society, at that time contained <br /> another house near the "Russell" house; this second house may have been the <br /> original shop remodeled into a residence (Edwin Worthen to Eugene J:: Viano, <br /> February 7, 19411 . The "Russell" house was occupied c. 1892 by Dr. Henry C. <br /> Valentine and owned at first by his father-in-law Warren Sherburne, but the <br /> adjoining house, the former shoemaker's shop, seems to have continued to have <br /> been owned by Raymond. It was moved to Manley Court sometime probably between <br /> 1906 and 1908, for the 1906 map shows an empty lot on the corner of. Manley <br /> Court and Woburn Street and in the 1908 atlas the house on the Massachusetts <br /> Avenue lot has a different configuration from the one there previously. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Edwin Worthen to Eugene J. Viano, February 7, 1941. Letter on file in the <br /> Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. <br /> 1876 map <br /> 1889 map <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> 1908 Sanborn atlas <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />