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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> Lexington 14 Glen Rd. South <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 679 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) <br /> When Benjamin Muzzey died his debts amounted to almost$19,000;his widow lost the house through a mortgage <br /> foreclosure in 1859 but it was bought back almost immediately by her son David W. Muzzey(1833-1913). In the 1880s <br /> the latter began to develop the Muzzey land in the Sherman/Grant/Sheridan streets and Oakland St. areas, selling it off as <br /> houselots. In the late 19th century this house, which the Muzzeys called the Homestead,had gardens and fruit trees on the <br /> south side and a stable at the rear. A large red cattle barn was further back at the base of the hill. Late 19th-century <br /> photographs show the house with no dormers,and an 1898 plan and the family memoir indicate that there were several ells <br /> on the north end. <br /> In 1913, soon after David W. Muzzey's death,the Edison Corporation asked to buy the houselot as a site for a new <br /> substation. After much deliberation,the family decided to sell the land and move the house to some Muzzey land up the hill <br /> on a street, now Glen Rd. South, that David Muzzey had opened in 1912. The moving was directed by Charles DeVeau, a <br /> building contractor who lived nearby on Sherman St. (see 2 Sherman St. [MHC#676] form), and the actual work done by <br /> the Ellis Company of Boston. The site on the hill was prepared so that the house would be aligned exactly as it had been on <br /> Massachusetts Ave., which is why the rear of the house now faces Glen Rd. South. To ready the house for moving, the rear <br /> ells were cut off, the barn torn down, and the house cut in half crosswise just north of the entries. Each half was moved on <br /> large wooden rollers,which photographs indicate rolled on railroad tracks, pulled by a cable wound around a windlass and <br /> drawn by two horses. Moving the first half began in the middle of April; it took three weeks to get it across the railroad <br /> tracks, down Grant St., up Glen Rd. South, and onto the new foundation. The second half was then moved,the two halves <br /> joined, and after the interior was replastered, painted, and papered, the house was ready for occupancy by late August. The <br /> house continued to be occupied by the children of David W. Muzzey, one of whom, David Saville Muzzey(b. 1870), <br /> became a noted historian and the author of a well-known text book on U.S. history, until 1979 when Clifford Muzzey <br /> (1886-1984) sold the house to its present owners. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued) <br /> Lexington Valuation Lists. 1830-1838. <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds, Plans. Cambridge, MA. 598: 463; 827: 413; Pl. Bk. 65, Pl. 12; Pl. Bk. 188, Pl. 31. <br /> Muzzey, Helen. Story of the Homestead. In possession of Kathy Mockett and John Oberteuffer, Lexington, MA. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned,torn down, and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. Cary Library, <br /> Lexington, Mass. #34 <br />
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