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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 16 FOREST ST <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 0 433 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> In addition to the alcove,the basement contains a large coat room equipped with racks, etc. for the young people, <br /> a small room for the work of literature distribution, and a toilet room off the front stair landing. In addition,there <br /> are two heater rooms with [provision for coal storage, etc., one containing a vapor heating plant and the other a <br /> hot air furnace,thus providing a heating and ventilating system at one flexible, economical and capable. <br /> The woodwork of the entire first floor is finished in a soft gray tone harmonizing with the rough scoured plaster <br /> walls and providing together with the dark stained floors, a most quiet and pleasing effect. The basement rooms <br /> are stained a soft and satisfying shade of brown. <br /> The grounds have been well laid out and already present a beautiful lawn with shrubs and evergreens bordering <br /> the building(Lexington Minute-Man,July 6, 1918). <br /> According to the Department of Public Safety Records at the Massachusetts State Archives, an addition or alterations to <br /> the building were completed in 1955 according to designs by Boston architect Arland Dirlam. <br /> In recent years the former church has been converted to a residence. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Dept. of Public Safety, Division of Inspection, Plan Records,Mass. State Archives. <br /> Hudson, Charles,History of the Town of Lexington,vol. II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913, p. 587. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man, September 1, 1899; Oct. 15, 1904; July 6, 1918. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> April 2009 <br />