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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address LEXINGTON 23 BLOOMFIELD ST. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 479 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: This house was bought by Josiah Ingalls of Cambridge, a piano tuner, in October 1884. It is described as"one of Mr. Norris' new houses on Bloomfield Street". According to the brief article, Ingalls negotiated for Mr. Prosser's House(16 Bloomfield?)but did not buy it as had been previously reported(Lexington Minute-Man, October 17, 1884). John L.Norris developed much of the Bloomfield Street area(Area N) in the 1880s. He became a resident of Lexington in March 1872 and initially lived at 1430 Mass. Ave.before constructing a new house in the neighborhood(1404 Mass. Ave?) in 1885. He was a contractor and builder and a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. In August 1886 alone he had sold four lots near Bloomfield Street. In 1907 the Ingalls House was sold to Ellis W. Tower, who worked in Boston. Winslow and Dorothy Tower owned it from 1955 to 1983. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 496. Lexington Directories,various dates. Lexington Minute-Man, October 17, 1884; July 27, 1907. Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. 1898 Atlas. Supplement prepared by: Lisa Mausolf January 2009