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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCWISSION Lexington 395 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 4 Chandler Street <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> This is a well-preserved example of the substantial, primarily Queen Anne <br /> style houses which typify Meriam Hill. Features include a hexagonal turret <br /> with polygonal peaked roof and finial, overhanging gable finished with a row <br /> of sawtooth shingles, and balustrades with patterned stick work. The house is <br /> the largest and perhaps the most elegant of the houses built speculatively by <br /> Abram C. Washburn, prolific local builder. V47here Washburn got his house plans <br /> has not been determined. He may have purchased plans from available sources, <br /> or he may have made his own designs. His buildings usually include standard <br /> features, such -as cross gables, overhanging gable ends, bay windows, and <br /> patterned shingling. As with many of the houses on Meriam Hill, this house's <br /> progress was chronicled in the local newspaper. References included: <br /> A.C. ; ashburn is building a new house near the junction <br /> of Meriam and Chandler Streets. The frame is already <br /> up and the work in progress on the interior. The house <br /> is of pleasing design with a roomy tower on the western <br /> corner, from which there is a fine outlook and the <br /> rooms include a good sized hall, reception room, parlor, <br /> dining room and kitchen with four good sized sleeping <br /> rooms on the second floor and nicely furnished rooms in <br /> the roof. The house will be completed by fall, when <br /> its many advantages will find a ready purchaser. <br /> (Lexington Minute Marr, August 2, 1895) <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />