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- ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This is one of several ample Shingle Style houses built on Munroe Hill <br /> in the 1890s. Features include a porch with paired, splayed posts, bay <br /> window with polygonal roof, and dormer windows with diamond panes. <br /> HIST ICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> 7 <br /> The house was built by Mrs. George L. Stowell, the wife of a teacher <br /> living on Massachusetts Avenue near Percy Road. The house was assessed in <br /> 1897 for $7,500. After 1900 Charles Poor Briggs, a dentist in Boston, <br /> purchased the house. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 61. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Letter from E.B. Worthen to Dr. H.J. Crumb, October 22, 1948. Worthen Collec- <br /> tion, Cary Library. <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 1894 Directory <br /> 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />