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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6-8 Forest Court <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <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 /> An interesting variation on the two-family form, 6-8 Forest Court is a two-story,hip-roofed structure with a two-bay wide gable <br /> projecting from the center of the long fagade. Single-story entrance porches are located on either side of the front gable, <br /> supported by Doric columns resting on low walls. The building is sheathed in vinyl siding and rests on a rubble foundation. The <br /> predominant window is an original 2/1 wooden sash set into a molded surround. They are used individually and in pairs. <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 two-family dwelling had not yet been constructed at the time of the 1908 Sanborn map but was in place by 1918. The <br /> original owner is not known. Like the structure at 5-7 Forest Street, it may have been erected by Hammon Reed(d.1911), a <br /> prominent local resident who resided at 87 Waltham Street and earned his living in real estate. The property was sold by his son, <br /> William W. Reed,to Clifford Currier in 1922. Currier lived at 5-7 Forest Street and retained ownership of that building but sold <br /> this building to George Ross the same year(Book 4558,Page 22). In 1920 the two units were rented to Frank Fowler, a <br /> traveling salesman and Robert Sturtevant, an insurance broker. <br /> In 1924 the building was sold by George Ross to Grace Longland,wife of John Longland, a salesman. The couple occupied one <br /> unit while renting the other. John Longland sold the property to John and Mary Morrow in 1945 and it was sold by John <br /> Morrow to the present owner in 1975. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913. <br /> Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> Sanborn Insurance Maps. <br /> U.S. Census, 1910-1930. <br /> 1906 map. <br /> Continuation sheet 1 <br />