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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 171 GRANT STREET <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> 2226 <br /> National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form <br /> Check all that apply: <br /> ® Individually eligible ❑ Eligible only in a historic district <br /> ❑ Contributing to a potential historic district ❑ Potential historic district <br /> Criteria: ® A ❑ B H C ❑ D <br /> Criteria Considerations: ❑ A ❑ B ❑ C ❑ D ❑ E ❑ F ❑ G <br /> Statement of Significance by Wendy Frontiero <br /> The criteria that are checked in the above sections must be justified here. <br /> The Paul and Cora Bowser Estate (Fair Oaks Farm) is a well-preserved and intact example of a high-quality, upper <br /> middle class country estate in Lexington. It is significant for its associations with the development of Lexington as a <br /> fashionable suburb in the late 19th and early 201h centuries; for its connections with early 20t century sports history and <br /> with a regionally and nationally known sorts promoter, Paul Bowser; and as an example of high-style Colonial Revival <br /> architecture in Lexington in the early 20t century. The property retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, <br /> workmanship, feeling, and association. It meets Criteria A and C of the National Register on the local and possibly state <br /> levels. Its period of significance is 1931-60. <br /> Continuation sheet 4 <br />