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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 8 GLEN ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 403 <br /> BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> This house was constructed before 1899 when it was occupied by Charles I. Wheeler,who sold awnings in Boston. On <br /> August 18, 1906 the Lexington Minute-man reported that: <br /> Mrs. Sarah P. McLean Greene has recently purchased the Chas.1. Wheeler house on Glen road,vacated a short <br /> time ago by Chas. H. Miles, superintendent of the Lexington Gas and Elec. Lt. Co. It is a picturesque Dutch <br /> colonial house nestling amid some dwarf pines. It is hardly necessary to recall that Mrs. Greene is the author of <br /> "Cape Cod Folks",that humorous photographic portrayal of life and characteristics of the cape. The book has <br /> recently been dramatized and is to be brought out on the stage of the Boston Theatre,beginning with the week of <br /> Monday,Aug. 27th,when the regular fall season at this theatre opens...Mrs. Greene has published a number of <br /> novels since this her first one,which made a sensation and established her literary prestige. She averages about a <br /> book a year, and a novel is now in the hands of her publishers and will be issued to the public before too long. <br /> Mrs. Greene is the sister of the late Mrs. Wm.H. Greeley of Lexington, and her brother is ex-Gov. McLean of <br /> Connecticut. <br /> Sarah Pratt McLean Greene(1856-1935)was born in Simsbury, Connecticut and studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary for <br /> two years before leaving to teach on the Cape. Her experiences there inspired her first book Cape Cod Folks(1881). In <br /> addition to Cape Cod Folks,her works include Towhead(1883),Last Chance Junction (1889), The Moral Imbeciles <br /> (1898), Vestry of the Basins(1900), Winslow Plain (1902),Flood Tide(1902) and Power Lot(1906). Her book Cape <br /> Cod Folks was the basis of a silent movie, Women Who Give,produced in 1924 by Louis B. Mayer. In 1887 she had <br /> married Franklin Greene who died in 1890. Mrs. Greene lived at 8 Glen Road until her death in 1935. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man,August 18, 1906. <br /> Representative Women of New England. Compiled by Mary A. Stimpson,Martha Seavey Hoyt. New England Historical <br /> Pub. Co., 1904,pp. 262-264. <br /> www.alibris.co.uk <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> March 2009 <br />