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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 26 CLIFFS AVENUE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2207 Street) until at least 1950, at which time it encompassed a substantial farmhouse and greenhouse and two other large outbuildings. The area was likely developed in response to the electric street railway, which began service on Mass. Avenue in 1899. Like Liberty Heights to the south of Massachusetts Avenue (which it resembles, architecturally; LEX.Q), this neighborhood—known as Massachusetts Avenue Terrace and Arlington Heights Terrace—was laid out by Jacob W. Wilbur, a prolific Brookline developer. Wilbur typically sited his subdivisions near streetcar lines and appealed to working class residents. Cliffe Avenue was laid out by 1922, when 13 households resided on the street, all in unnumbered houses. The house at 26 Cliffe Avenue first appears on the historic maps in 1927. Its first known occupants are the Stanbrook family, consisting of Alfred (a cigar packer), his wife Henrietta, their son Alfred J. (an inspector for an adding machine company in Boston), and his wife Lillian E., who moved here between 1930 and 1931. Alfred, Henrietta, and Alfred J. Stanbrook were all born in England; they lived in this house until at least 1935. By 1945, two other couples were identified at this address: Charles J. McDonnell, a machinist, and his wife Helen B., and John J. Gaudy, a baker, and his wife Katherine E., a telephone operator. Subsequent occupants included Thomas A. Clear, identified as a supervisor and a manager, and his wife Ann M. (1955 and 1965) BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Boston Directories: 1913, 1918, 1931. Cambridge Directories: 1928, 1930. 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.lexingtonmagov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1932, 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: 1920. SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES ej - - West(back) and south elevations Continuation sheet 3