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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 CRESCENT HILL AVE. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 2214 "As you cannot get rich by hard work, try investing and speculating as others have done, and become rich; remember the first step to wealth is to own your own home, and not throw your hard earnings away to landlords and have nothing; now don't go away out 10 or 15-cent carfare from Boston, when you can buy land and houses just as cheap adjoining North Cambridge, where it is building up fast, and where you can sell or rent your place very quickly; good house lots at 5 cents per foot and upwards; town water in front of lots, shade trees on sidewalks; stone given free to build all cellars; money loaned to build; good many lots fronting on Massachusetts Avenue; no taxes or interest for three years; titles guaranteed. See T. Tolson, Or salesman at office on the land, 60 Massachusetts Avenue. First electric car stop in Arlington." The first known residents at this address were William H.Wheatley, a farmer, and his wife Charlotte B., in 1922. Both were immigrants, he from England, she from Sweden. In 1920, they were living in this house with three sons and a boarder; William's occupation in that year and 1910 was janitor. Subsequent occupants included Arthur S. Barnes, a clerk, and his wife Alice E. (1935 and 1945); Elliott W. Lloyd, a pipe fitter, and his wife Mary B. (1955); and John J McCarthy, a machinist, and his wife Marl (sic) (1965). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935, 1935/1950. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1906, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936 Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. Stevens, Doreen and Aimee Taberner and Sarah Burks. Arlington's Cultural Heights: 1900-1925. [Arlington, Mass.:] Arlington Historical Society and Cyrus Dallin Art Museum, 2013. U.S. Census: 1910, 1920, 1930. SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES 3:•: tib.. 1 L ■ 1 �: ■ d- - a Left side and front (facade) elevations Continuation sheet 2