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7. Original owner (if known) Original use Subsequent uses (if any) and dates 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) Aboriginal Conservation Recreation Agricultural Education Religion Architectural x Exploration/ Science/ The Arts settlement invention Commerce Industry Social/ Communication Military humanitarian Community development x Political Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) Door on right, Front porch enclosed. Lattice in arch around door. Bay window on left side. Roof comes to top of first floor and overhangs. 2 dormers on front with large gables connected as a shed dormer in center. This appears added. In rear back porch(es)' with room above. (Room appears added) offset of second floor over first chimney at center behind ridge. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE This building postdates all but one of its immediate neighbors on Forest Street by a quarter of a century or more. Its building date just before 1906 makes it a very early example of its Dutch Colonidl,, style. The fact that the doorway is very similar to the doorway which Willard Brown designed for his own house at 20 Meriam Street in 1906 leads to the suspicion that Brown had a hand in the design of this house. Also of interest is the fact that a nearly identical house exists at 6 Middlebury Road and a similar one is found on Audubon Road, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE The house was owned by Edward Haven Goodnough, a manager in Boston in 1906. Very likely he built the house shortly before that for, although born in New Jersey, he had moved to Lexington by the time his child was born in 1905. 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 244. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. 1906 atlas 2906 Directory.