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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 7 FERN STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 0 2221 in 1889, and W. B. Foster in 1898. The 1899 and 1906 directories show a William B. Foster, police officer, with an unnumbered house on Fern Street; George E. Foster, a clerk at Waldo Brothers in Boston, was boarding with him in those years. Worthen notes that Foster also served as a selectman and fire engineer. The house numbering system in the 1922 directory contains no 7 Fern Street. This property may have been #11 in that year, occupied by Winfield T. Dunn, a salesman, his wife May E., and Charles H. Dunn, a farmer who boarded at that address. In 1935 and 1945, Emma J. Hadley, the widow of Elinus B. Hadley, was living at this address. She was accompanied in 1945 by Priscilla Hadley, a defense worker, and Philip E. Silva, serving in the Navy, and his wife Virginia. The Woodruff family, consisting of Herbert B., a printer, his wife Thelma, and Mabel F. Woodruff, resided here in 1955. By 1965, Emma Hadley is again identified at this house, along with Philip and Virginia Silva and presumably their son Richard. Philip was a meat cutter and Richard was in the Navy in that year. Further research is recommended to establish the early history of this building and its possible agricultural associations. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Historic maps and atlases: Hales 1830; Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935, 1935/1950. Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries. http://historicsurveV.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1906, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936. Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. Continuation sheet 2