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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 FERN ST/15 PLEASANT ST MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 0 2222 Lloyd Buttrick (1864-1908) was the son of Gorham and Charlotte Buttrick; he and his wife Sarah Richards Buttrick had five children. Other potential family members who may have been affiliated with this property include the following: Charles F. Buttrick, carpenter, is listed in 1906 as residing on Fern Street; Gorham Buttrick, a produce dealer, lived not too far away on Massachusetts Avenue, near Locust Street, in 1898 and 1906; and a Francis L. Buttrick, a salesman in Boston, lived at 215 Massachusetts Avenue in East Lexington. Further research is recommended to establish the early history of this building (and the adjacent 11 Pleasant Street) and whether it had any agricultural or commercial functions to which its present utilitarian appearance can be attributed. The massing, proportions, chimneys, and north side's fenestration suggest possible early to mid 19 h century origins, either as a secondary house on the property or perhaps as a barn or other accessory structure. By 1935, the Buttrick parcel was subdivided and 15 Pleasant/10 Fern Street is identified as 13 Pleasant Street, the address it retained on the Sanborn maps through at least 1950. Identified in the town directory at 13 Pleasant Street in 1922 were Benjamin Burgess, a salesman, and his wife Jennie. No 13 Pleasant Street is listed in the 1935, 1945, 1955, or 1965 directories. Assuming that this building was considered #15 in the directories of all those years, residents of the property included the following: vacant (1935); Martha Jones, defense worker, and three younger generation Joneses, two serving in the Army and one a clerk (1945); unknown (1955; no#15 listed); Mary E. Kelly, clerk, and Anne M. Shanahan, housewife (1965). Further research is recommended to clarify 20th century residents of this building. 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. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries. http://historicsurvey.lexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Lexington Directories: 1899, 1906, 1908-09, 1922, 1934, 1936. Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. Continuation sheet 2