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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 23 ELIOT ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 505 <br /> BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> Additional information confirms that this house was constructed in 1899 for Charles Follen Garrison(b. 1868)and his <br /> wife Margaret on land purchased from the Lexington Land Company. A brief mention in the Lexington Minute-Man on <br /> February 10, 1899 noted that two or three houses were to be built in the Mt. Vernon district in the spring including <br /> houses for Dr. Chas. P. Briggs(see 27 Eliot Road)and Charles Garrison. The Garrisons moved out of town prior to <br /> 1910. Stanley Eldridge, a wholesale grocer in Boston,was living here by 1915 and was still here in 1932. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man,Feb. 10, 1899. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds,Cambridge,Mass. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> January 2009 <br />