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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 45 ADAMS STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> �H 2105 <br /> and her husband John Baskin. After World War II the farm was completely subdivided and sold off..." (LEX.706) Porter Lane <br /> was laid out and developed with large single-family houses in 2000. <br /> The Baskin family occupied the house at least through 1965. In 1945 the property is identified as occupied by W. John Baskin, a <br /> market gardener, and his wife Frances M. The 1935 Sanborn atlas shows three greenhouses owned by John Baskin adjacent to <br /> the Porter&Wilson greenhouses on East Street, near Adams. By 1955, however, Baskin is identified as William J. and in the <br /> real estate business. By 1965, Frances May Baskin was living here with her son James E. Baskin, a student, and Ernest <br /> O'Connor, a young truck driver. Mrs. Baskin continued to live in the house until her death in 2012. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, <br /> 1935, 1935/1950. <br /> Lexington Directories, 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936 <br /> Lexington List of Persons, 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. <br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. Form B for 43 Adams Street, LEX.706 <br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. <br /> Ancestry.com. United States Obituary Collection [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. <br /> Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com <br /> Operations, Inc., 2013. <br /> Continuation sheet 3 <br />