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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house has the nicturescue massing and patterned shingle finish <br /> characteristic of O UCe,Yo At n e and Shingle Stele vernacular houses in Lexington. <br /> Other features include deer brackets at the overhanging second stor•7 on the <br /> -ight hand side. The house was built, the newspaper tells us, bu Abram_+da _ <br /> vashburn, one of Lexington's most prominent local contractors, veru probably on <br /> speculation. A house of nearly identical form was built by- Washburn at <br /> south corner of Bloomfield Street and Highland Avenue. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community,) <br /> In 1.890 Allston_ !onroe Redman, who worked in Boston, moved to this <br /> house with his far.ily. A diary kept by his daughter, Edith, during their early <br /> years in Lexington is in the possession of the Lexington Historical Societl . <br /> It is an account of the activities of rliss Redman when she was in her early <br /> twenties, but nukes passing reference to the house. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 bN7 the Lexington_ historical Societe, Volume II, P. 556. Boston: <br /> Houghton Iifflin Company, 1913. f r <br /> Lexington -Minute 1-Ian, riay 21, 1886.] ('eb �� I HO <br /> Diary of Edith Dedman. Lexington historical Society archives. <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />