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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 38 FOREST STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 443 <br /> BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> A brief mention in the Lexington Minute-man on August 17, 1888 noted that"Mr. William F. Glenn is building himself a <br /> house on Forest Street". William Fish Glenn was born in Nova Scotia in 1851 and came to Lexington in 1871. He was a <br /> carpenter and a Free Mason. Glenn died between 1918 and 1922 but his widow Clara continued to occupy the house into <br /> the 1930s. <br /> The house remained in the Glenn family until 1993. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913,vol. 2,p. 242. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man,August 17, 1888; Aug. 10, 1907 (advertisement—see below) <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> March 2009 <br /> carpenter and lo ber, <br /> Twenty. Ydars' Experjenc't-; <br /> ns <br /> t � . <br /> 'WILLIAM : GLf N, <br /> 38 Forest St.,..Lexington, Maas: <br /> fIcaug3m <br />