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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 6 ELIOT ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 507 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> This Georgian Revival mansion was not constructed for Richard Engstrom as previously believed,but rather was built as <br /> a summer residence for Harry Fay in 1907. <br /> Several brief notes appearing in the Lexington Minute-Man in 1906 and 1907 document the construction of the house. On <br /> December 8, 1906 the paper reported: <br /> The materials are on the ground for an expensive country house Mr. Harry F. Fay is to build on a large lot of land <br /> lying between Pelham and Eliot roads. Mr. Fay is president of a well known copper concern and Lexington is to <br /> be congratulated on securing such a citizen and the prospect of adding to its realty holdings. It has been stated <br /> that the house is to cost fifty thousand dollars. <br /> On March 23, 1907,the paper noted that"Lexington Golf Club will open the season on April 19t`. Mr. Fay, who is <br /> building the imposing house on"Munroe Heights,"is president of the club. <br /> An update on May 4, 1907 stated: <br /> The brick walls now enclose the superb Georgian mansion being built for Mr. H. E. Fay,whose winter residence <br /> is at 409 Beacon street,Boston. One now gets a very good idea of the unusual size,handsome proportions and <br /> dignified architectural plans which are features of this structure,which is by far the most expensive private <br /> dwelling that has been built in Lexington since the F.B. Hayes estate was completed. <br /> The summer home was designed by New York architect Oswald C. Hering(1874-1941). Hering graduated from MIT in <br /> 1897 and later studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He opened an office in New York in 1900 and his early work <br /> concentrated on designing large country homes in Westchester County, on Long Island, in the Philadelphia suburbs and <br /> throughout New England and the mid Atlantic states. This is the only known building by Hering in Massachusetts. <br /> Photographs of the Fay House appeared in the national publication Brickbuilder in 1908. <br /> In 1910 the Fay residence consisted of 59 year old Harry,his wife Mary, daughter Helen and three servants. The last <br /> listing for the family at this address is in the 1918 directory. The 1920 Census lists Harry and Helen as"boarders"at the <br /> Russell House, 347 Massachusetts Avenue. Richard Engstrom, a chemist,was living at 6 Eliot Road in 1922 and was still <br /> here in 1942. <br />