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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 2-4 GRANT PLACE <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2224 <br /> Residential development of today's Grant Place was sporadic, and both 2-4 and 11 Grant Place may have been moved to this <br /> streetscape, as they seem stylistically to pre-date the street itself. <br /> An extension of Sherman Street west of Grant Street first appears on the maps in 1889 as an informal passageway into the rail <br /> yards, at right angles to Grant Street. A roadway here is not depicted again in any form until 1918, when a stubby Grant Place <br /> extends at an acute angle from Grant Street. In 1927, this house and the beginning of Grant Place remain in the same <br /> configuration. Between 1927 and 1935, the original stub of Grant Place was joined by the Sherman Street Extension, apparently <br /> just a road on paper, which extended perpendicular to Grant Street and is shown as 50 feet wide and connecting with Oakland <br /> Street. By 1950, the Sherman Street Extension was renamed Grant Place, but was still hypothetical. <br /> 2-4 Grant Street appears on its current site by 1918; 11 Grant Place by 1950. Two buildings at what is now the end of Grant <br /> Place (a side by side duplex and a single-family dwelling) are also in place by 1918; the present pair of buildings there may be <br /> re-workings of those two early residences. A house at the head of Grant Street(#22, apparently extant), facing Sherman Street, <br /> was standing here by 1927. <br /> The present house at 2-4 Grant Street is first shown in its current location in 1918. A variety of outbuildings have stood on the <br /> site between 1918 and 1950, changing in size, shape, height, and location from time to time. It is not clear that any are the <br /> current garage. <br /> The first known residents at this address (as early as 1930 and into the 1980s) are the family of Joseph P. Grace, who was a <br /> laborer in the Jefferson Union Co. machine shop. Members of the Grace family included his wife Mary(husband and wife were <br /> both born in the Azores), and their daughter Mary, who worked as a bookkeeper in an office. Other individuals residing here <br /> with the Graces included four adults of various ages and names (two of whom seem to be mother and daughter; 1935); Everett <br /> Humphrey(a clerk)with his wife Violet and young son (1940); Eugene Taylor, an "operator", and his wife Sarah (1945 and <br /> 1955); and octogenarian Ethel J. Brown (1965) <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, <br /> 1935, 1935/1950. <br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1930, 1934, 1936. <br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1960, 1965. <br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. <br /> U.S. Census: 1920, 1940. <br /> Continuation sheet 2 <br />