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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 3 FERN STREET <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. <br /> If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> Located at the junction of Fern and Pleasant Streets, 3 Fern Street is a 1 'h-story, gablefront dwelling dating to the turn-of-the- <br /> 20th century. Set on a rubble foundation, it is sheathed in wood clapboards. The gablefront is spanned by a shed-roofed porch <br /> supported by burned posts with a spindle balustrade. Adding interest to the simple rectangular plan are several polygonal bay <br /> windows and a small gable projecting from the north half of the gablefront. The sidehall entry contains a glass and panel door <br /> and the opening beside it has been replaced by a multi-light picture window. Windows include original 6/6 sash and later <br /> replacement windows. The second story windows on the side elevations are smaller and are tucked under the eaves. Additions <br /> have been added to the north and rear. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the <br /> owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was constructed for William B. Foster(b. 1846 in Michigan)who lived at 7 Fern Street and purchased the property in <br /> 1899 from Eunice Harris. Foster became a resident of Lexington in 1882. He was in the real estate business and was a Mason. <br /> He held various town offices—selectman, fire engineer,board of health, constable and chief of police—and was also a trustee of <br /> the Lexington Savings Bank. The house had not been built at the time of the 1898 map but is depicted on the 1906 map. He <br /> also owned 15 Fern Street. <br /> Foster continued to own the house at 3 Fern Street and rent it out until 1922 when he sold it to Pearl Stoney,widow of Benjamin <br /> Stoney, and formerly of Arlington. Mrs. Stoney continued to own the property until 1952. Later owners included Stanley <br /> Thomas Olen(1952-1960),Vincent Allia(1960-1) and Russell and Marion Morash(1961-1975). <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of Lexington, Massachusetts,vol. 2,p. 226. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census,various years. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. <br /> 1898, 1906 maps <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />