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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This well-propportioned Colonial Revival house is strikingly modern in <br /> feeling for its 1906 construction date. The portico is a distinctive design <br /> of fluted columns, latticework and crossed support beams with exposed shaped <br /> ends very Japanese in feeling. Similar exposed beams form the porch to the <br /> left. The architect of this building was educated at Harvard (AB 1908) and <br /> studied architecture in Paris for one-and-a-half years. He practiced in <br /> Lexington for ten years or so and then moved to California. His mother ran <br /> the Wildacre Inn at 50 Percy Road. He also designed 43 Highland Avenue adjacent. <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 /> The house was built by Francis Smith Dane, a rubber boot and shoe <br /> manufacturer in Boston. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> `} Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 573. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. �P <br /> Personal communication from Marsha Dane. (da'(AJi <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />