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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCI+ffSSION Lexington 396 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 6 Chandler Street <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> Except for the one-story polygonal expansion at the left front corner, <br /> this house is fairly faithful in form to its Colonial sources. 4Wi1r�ow place- <br /> went is, however, subtly asymmetrical and the three-part window/semicircular <br /> fan above in the pedimented gable is only an allusion to a palladian window, <br /> rather than an actual one. A contemporary newspaper gives the following <br /> description of the building and its builders: <br /> John McKav is about completing the house . . . being <br /> built for J.P. Prince, Esq. and which is a gem in style <br /> of architecture and workmanship reflecting much credit <br /> on the builder and also the Lexington lumber yards <br /> which furnished the lumber and the handsome auarter oak <br /> for the beautiful interior finish. The house is in <br /> pure colonial style and has a most pleasing outward <br /> appearance, while its inside is exceptionally gratifying <br /> from its artistic scheme of decoration, the detail of <br /> the work being substantial and yet elegant and in the <br /> best of taste. Scott is finishing the work with a full <br /> corps of efficient assistants. <br /> (Lexington Minute Man, October 16, 1891) <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />