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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CU+ffSSION Lexington 4.34 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 18-20 Forest Street <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> This substantial house is embellished with typical Queen Anne/Colonial <br /> Revival features: bay windows, oculus window, deep console brackets at the over- <br /> hanging pedimented gable, and porch with balustrade above. This building is <br /> nearly identical in design with 22 Forest Street. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> The process of elimination makes this house and its neighbor to the west <br /> at 22 Forest Street the "apartments" referred to in the local newspaper: <br /> The second apartment building on Forest Street is going <br /> up now. (Lexington Minute Man, June 12, 1896) <br /> Mr. Slootmaker's apartment buildings on Forest Street are <br /> being finished and being painted buff with cream trimmings <br /> and red with light trimmings. (Lexington Minute Man, <br /> August 14, 1896) <br /> This is the only reference so far discovered to "apartments" in Lexington <br /> in the late nineteenth century. Perhaps there were multiple units in these <br /> buildings. No information about Mr. Slootmaker has been turned up. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Lexington Minute Man, June 12, 1896, August 14, 1896. <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1898 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 1894 Directory <br /> 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />