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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: MASSACHUSE17S HISTORICAL CCf+1ISSION Lexington 442 Office of the Secretary, Boston Property Name: 36 Forest Street Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Washburn also built for others from architects' designs (e.g. 2 Oakland Street, 20 Percy Road) . The following is a partial list of buildings built by Washburn: 36 Forest Street, c. 1885, 1896 38 Forest Street, c. 1885 , 8 Raymond Street, 1885 16 Clarke Street, 1896 24 Clarke Street, 1886 2 Oakland Street, 1894 27 Oakland Street, 1887 3 Chandler Street, 1895 4 Chandler Street, c. 1900 6 Chandler Street, c. 1900 4 Glen Road, c. 1900 9 Winthrop Road, c. 1900 86 Bloomfield Street, 1894 10 Stratham Road, 1894 26 Parker Street, date unknown 25 Parker Street, date unknown 20 Percy Road, date unknown ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE This house began as a one-story cottage. In 1896 two additional stories were added by the owner, contractor Abram C, Washburn. In 1887 Washburn built a house at 39 Highland Avenue for G.S. Norris. He chose to use the same design for the enlargement of his own house nine years later. The design was published in the Supplement to the Scientific American- Architects and Builders Edition of October 1886 under the title "An $1800 Dwelling designed by Frank D. Nichols, Bridgeport, Conn." (see accompanying illustration) . Scientific American published from 1880 to 1905 a monthly maga- zine intended to inform the public about good building practices and modern construction techniques. It became by the mid-1880s the builder's magazine with the largest circulation in the world. Each month the magazine published color plates and specifications for two buildings. Washburn or Norris must have had access to this publicaiton, and Washburn must have translated the illustration into the actual buildings. While room dimensions are given in the plans, there is only a perspective drawing to show the configuration of the elevations. Evidently it was not possible to order working drawings, as was the case with some designs published in the late nineteenth century. Washburn's house is a near copy of the illustration. Although he does not include the oculus windows, he does apply the stickwork as shown and uses areas of patterned shingles and diagonal flush boarding as indicated between the stickwork. He chose to use staggered butt shingles on the gables and hexagonal ones on the tower rather than the suggested hexagonal ones only. The Porch of the house has been enclosed and glazed. Very likely the porch looked (see Continuation Sheet) Staple to Inventory form at bottom