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7. Original owner (if known) Horace B. Davis <br /> Original use <br /> Subsequent uses (if any) and dates <br /> 8. Themes (check as many as applicable) <br /> Aboriginal Conservation Recreation <br /> Agricultural Education Religion <br /> Architectural x Exploration/ Science/ <br /> The Arts settlement invention <br /> Commerce Industry Social/ <br /> Communication Military humanitarian <br /> Community development Political Transportation <br /> 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) <br /> Front porch 2 bays wide, lattice below, now has built up sides of rail inclapboard <br /> This house was built in 1847 for Horace B. Davis, later an assessor for the <br /> fourteen ,years from 1876 to 1889. It originally stood on Waltham Street on the <br /> lot immediately to the north of the present No. 82. In 1887, however, Davis sold <br /> the house to Hammon Reed, who owned the house still across Waltham Street at No. 87. <br /> Reed moved this house to its present location on Forest Street and built a new one <br /> for his new son-in-law, Fred K. Brown, on the vacated lot on Waltham Street. By <br /> 1889 this house was apparently owned by a Miss Sarah Chandler and by 1906 by Mrs. <br /> Alice C. Reed, a dressmaker. <br /> 10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, <br /> early maps, etc.) <br /> Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Vol. II (Boston: Houghton Mif- <br /> flin Co. , 1911 , PP• 568-69. <br /> 1889 map <br /> ,1898 map <br /> 1906 map <br /> 1887 Directory <br /> 1906 Directory <br />