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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address Lexington 70 East St. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 710 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) and the masonry work by Jacob Robinson(1762-1848). Dr. Joseph Fiske married in 1794 and lived in this house until 1809 when, after his father's death the preceding year,he moved to the old Fiske house on Hancock St. (63 Hancock St., MHC#735). After Dr. Joseph Fiske moved out of the house, it was occupied by a long succession of tenants,who are identified in the Fiske notes, until Dr. Fiske died in 1837. The house was then acquired by his son Joseph(1797-1860), who lived here, again sometimes renting part of it to tenants, from 1838 until his death in 1860. In 1857 Joseph's son Timothy K. Fiske married Barbara Peters, whose family had come to Lexington from Germany in 1855 and would soon live in the house now at 49 East St. (MHC# 709). The couple lived in this house until 1874, when they moved to the house that Timothy had built across the street(71 East St., MHC#711). This house was purchased in 1873 by Eben Stone of Boston, who again rented it out and then sold it in 1880. The house then had a series of owners before being sold at auction in 1892 to William E. Fiske(1858-1944), Timothy K.'s oldest son and a great-grandson of Dr. Joseph Fiske. William continued to live in his parents' house, however, and rented this one to yet another series of tenants. Finally, in 1905 his brother Joseph H. Fiske, a dealer in bicycles and boots and shoes,was married in this house and then lived here until 1919. The house remained in the Fiske family until the 1940s, and in 1979 was renovated by developer Mark Moore and his wife Gladys.