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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> One of three industrial buildings to survive in Lexington Center, this <br /> building, although built in 1912, is in the style of a nineteenth century <br /> clerestory-monitor-roofed mill. It has seen little change since its original <br /> construction. Also noteworthy is the brick structure immediately to the north. <br /> Apparently always a Lexington Lumber Company building, it is in the style of an <br /> early twentieth century garage. There are three elliptical arches fitted with <br /> garage doors. A slightly peaked parapet finished with cyma reversa curves at <br /> (see Continuation Sheet) <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 /> "One of the oldest, continually operating businesses in Lexington . . . <br /> the Lexington Lumber Company [was] formerly known as Whitcher's Grain Mill. It <br /> began selling lumber in 1883 behind what is today the Bay Bank-Harvard Trust <br /> Company on Massachusetts Avenue. The company moved to its present location in <br /> 1912" (Kelley 1980:30) . George Briggs and William Smith were the owners when <br /> these buildings were built. An entry on the 1918 Sanborn map indicates that <br /> the brick building was built in 1913. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington, A Century of Photographs, p. 30. Boston: <br /> Lexington Historical Society, 1980. <br /> Lexington Minute Man, December 30, 1971. <br /> 1918 Sanborn map <br /> e <br /> IOM - 7/82 <br />