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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 56 BLOOMFIELD ST. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 485 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> According to the previous inventory form prepared for this property, Mathews was the original owner. A notice <br /> appearing in the Lexington Minute-man on September 17, 1888 announced that Dr. Raymond had just sold property on <br /> Bloomfield Street to a Captain Richard Matthews. Capt. Matthews died in Malden in 1893 at the age of 75 (Minute-man, <br /> Dec. 15, 1893). <br /> In the 1890s the property was owned by Joseph Silloway. The 1894 directory lists his address as Bloomfield Street and <br /> his occupation as sailmaker. He is also shown as the owner on the 1898 map. <br /> On June 29, 1901 the Lexington Minute-Man announced that"The Siloway property on Bloomfield street has been sold <br /> to Mr. Dwight Kilgour of East Lexington'. Kilgore was still living here in 1932 but by 1942 the property was occupied <br /> by Henry Chauncy, a dean at Harvard. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories, various years. <br /> Lexington Minute-man, Sept. 17, 1888;Dec. 15, 1893; June 29, 1901. <br /> U.S. Census,Lexington. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> April 2009 <br />