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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> Lexington 8 Adams St. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 697 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION(continued) <br /> the door itself and at the tops of the sidelights, and flanked by square engaged pilastered columns. The design and massing <br /> of the rear elevation is, according to architectural historian Anne Grady, influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, especially the <br /> projecting hip-roofed center bay with tall windows on the second level and a band of shorter windows on the third. This bay <br /> also has a distinctive applied latticework on the stucco. The three-car stuccoed garage is hip-roofed. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) <br /> Willard Dalrymple Brown(1871-1944)grew up in Lexington,youngest son of a father who was a successful insurance <br /> agent, and graduated from Harvard in 1892 and from M.I.T. in architecture in 1894. From 1894 to 1902 Brown worked in <br /> the office of Boston architects Dwight and Chandler. In 1902 he set up his own office at 3 Park St. in Boston, moving it by <br /> 1906 to 15 Beacon St., where he remained for the rest of his career. The Whiting house was one of his first commissions. <br /> According to Anne Grady, an architectural historian who has studied Brown's work,he was influenced by the prevailing <br /> architectural theory of eclecticism, which, in his case, meant it was acceptable to build in any of a number of historical <br /> styles or to combine several styles in one building, and by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright(see Architectural Description <br /> above). The house was apparently completed in 1903 and was later occupied for many years by Whiting's daughter Jessie <br /> and her husband George Gilmore, which is the reason why it is sometimes known as the Gilmore House. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued) <br /> Schoenhut, Sarah Emily Brown to Anne A. Grady, 13 March 1984. In possession of Anne A. Grady, Lexington, MA. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. to Mrs. Bruce Currie, 16 February 1951. Worthen Collection. Cary Library, Lexington, MA. <br /> . A Calendar History of Lexington, Massachusetts, 1620-1946. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Savings Bank, <br /> 1946. 101 <br />
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