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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 18 BOWKER STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2196 The 1922 directory identifies four households on Bowker Street, none with street numbers. They include a carpenter, "state agent," post office clerk, mason, and chauffeur. The house at 18 Bowker appears on the 1927 map with a small outbuiding (likely a garage)at its back left corner. The first known residents at this address were Herbert G. Miller, a printing press operator, and his wife Bertha in 1935. By 1940, Herbert and Bertha were living a few doors away on Bowker Street, and#18 was occupied by Francis Dailey, a post office clerk, his wife Irene, and a lodger. (The extended Dailey family was living on Bowker Street as early as 1922.) Subsequent residents of this house were William A. Knight, a machinist, and his wife Gertrude F. (1945 and 1955), and Leroy J. Hebert, "Res. Tech.", and his wife Helen D. (1965). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935, 1935/1950. Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries. http://historicsurvey.lexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936. Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. . Form A— Liberty Heights, LEX.Q. Prepared by Anne Grady and Nancy Seasholes, 1984 and 2001. U.S. Census: 1940. SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES 4 South (right side) elevation North (left side) and west (fagade) elevations Continuation sheet 3