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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address LEXINGTON 10 ELIOT ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 506 BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Additional information found in the Lexington Minute-Man confirms that this house was constructed in 1902. A brief mention notes that Mr. Kettell had just purchased land on Eliot Road from James S. Munroe and was to build a house. The report states that Kettell was already living in the Mt. Vernon district. In August 1902 the paper reported that: The frame is completed and the rooms ready for the plasterers at Mr. Chas. W. Kettell's new residence on Warren street, on Munroe Hill. The house is to be a large one, containing some fifteen rooms, and commands a beautiful outlook on all sides (Minute-man, August 16, 1902). By 1928 Charles was apparently deceased and Mrs. Kettell (Fanny)was living here with her daughter Margaret. Directories list the Kettell's son, Russell, as the occupant in 1932 and 1942. Lois Lilley Howe(1864-1964)was born in Cambridge and studied at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston before receiving a degree in architecture from M.I.T. in 1890. She received her first commission to build a house in 1894, and worked alone and with various partners until 1900. She established her own firm in 1901 at 101 Tremont Street, Boston. She was the second woman elected to the American Institute of Architects(A.LA.),the first woman Fellow of the A.I.A. and the first woman elected to the Boston Society of Architects. Howe concentrated on domestic architecture. She was noted for pioneering the use of stucco and also had a keen interest in the issues of public housing. Howe retired from active practice in 1937. The MACRIS data base has eight listings for residences in Brookline, Cambridge, and Lexington that were designed or remodeled by architect Lois Lilley Howe in the early 20th century. Her other commission in Lexington is the home for Francis J. Garrison at 13 Pelham Road(1900). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cambridge Women's Heritage Project Database http://www.cambridgema.gov/cwhp/bios_h.html#HoweLL Lexington Directories,various dates. Lexington Minute-Man,Feb. 1, 1902; Aug. 16, 1902. Massachusetts Historical Commission, MACRIS database. Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. Supplement prepared by: Lisa Mausolf January 2009