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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This is an example of local architect, Willard Brown, working in a <br /> simplified Beaux Arts style. The most prominent feature of the design is the <br /> two-story recessed entrance with arched ceiling. The arch is embellished <br /> with panelled trim and there are columns in antis at the entry. The elements <br /> of the building's design are classical, but are corabined with Brown's usual <br /> creative sense into a highly individualistic building. He makes use, for <br /> example, of the flattened ellipse form, of which he was so fond, for- windows <br /> over the entry and on the sides of the building. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.) <br /> About 1900, a kindergarten was established and before 1906 it occupied <br /> this building. The building was remodeled in 1918 and dedicated as a <br /> Christian Science Church that same year. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. A Calendar History of Lexington, Massachusetts 1620-1946, <br /> p. 114. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Savings Bank, 1946. <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />