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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 22 CHARLES STREET
<br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
<br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
<br /> 2205
<br /> The small grid of streets bordered by Massachusetts Avenue, Hibbert Street, Taft Avenue, and Bowker Street represents an
<br /> early area of suburban infill in East Lexington, near the Arlington town line. Immediately south of Taft Avenue is Liberty Heights
<br /> (LEX.Q), a hilltop subdivision laid out by Brookline developer Jacob W. Wilbur in 1909 and developed in the teens and twenties.
<br /> The growth of both these neighborhoods followed the arrival of the electric street railway on Massachusetts Avenue in 1899 and
<br /> was directed at working class residents.
<br /> In the area adjacent to Massachusetts Avenue known as Dexter Hillside, Hibbert and Sylvia streets, which straddle the
<br /> Lexington/Arlington line, were laid out, platted, and partially developed by 1898. The only other evidence of development here at
<br /> that time is the L-shaped beginning of Charles and Cherry streets, where ten house lots were laid out but vacant. By 1927, both
<br /> Charles and Bowker streets extended from Massachusetts Avenue to Taft Avenue, and the western ends of Cherry Street,
<br /> Stevens (then Cary) Road, and Camden (then Smythe) Street pushed a few lots eastward from Charles. Development was
<br /> gradual through the 1920s and 30s and was virtually complete, with the present network of streets, by 1950.
<br /> The house and garage at 22 Charles Street appear on the 1927 Sanborn map. The first known residents at this address, in
<br /> 1930, were Finlay Maclsaac, a house carpenter born in Canada, his sister-n-law Rose McGovern, and his two daughters, one of
<br /> whom worked as a stenographer at the county farm bureau. Renting an apartment here in that year were Frank H. Tobin, a
<br /> painter, his wife Florence P., and their three young children. Subsequent residents included Bertram F. Jackson, Jr., identified
<br /> as a mechanic and a guard, and his wife Margaret R. from at least 1945 through 1965. Mary Jane Jackson, who worked as a
<br /> secretary, lived with them in 1965.
<br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
<br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927,
<br /> 1935, 1935/1950.
<br /> Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries.
<br /> http://historicsurvey.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
<br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942.
<br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965.
<br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980.
<br /> . Form A— Liberty Heights, LEX.Q. Prepared by Anne Grady and Nancy Seasholes, 1984 and 2001.
<br /> U.S. Census: 1930.
<br /> Continuation sheet 3
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