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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 10 INDEPENDENCE AVE.
<br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
<br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
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<br /> Avenue in 1875. On the map of that year, 10 Independence Avenue is pictured as a simple rectangular block with a small ell
<br /> centered at the back; it was owned by L. Smith.
<br /> By 1898, the house featured a larger rear ell, now off the right end of the house, with a large attached barn at the end. L. Smith
<br /> is named here again. This building configuration remained in place in 1906, but the attached barn disappeared by 1927, when it
<br /> replaced by a smaller, detached accessory building, one-story high, behind the house.
<br /> 10 Independence Avenue is thought to have been built between 1870 and 1875 by Larkin Smith, a tinsmith, who occupied the
<br /> building until at least 1913. (He was boarding elsewhere in 1918.) Smith (b. 1840)was the son of Larkin and Lucy Stone Smith.
<br /> In 1870 he married Charlotte Bennett (b. 1847), the daughter of Prescott and Almira Bass Bennett. In the 1870 census
<br /> (evidently taken prior to his marriage), Larkin lived in a large household with four members of the A. Goddard family—of whom
<br /> the father and son were tin plate workers—a servant, and two unrelated young men who were also tin plate workers. Perhaps
<br /> the younger workers were apprentices to the head of the household.
<br /> By 1922, the house was occupied by Frederick S. Ormond, a general foreman at the "BRN Co.", and his wife Mary; a Miss Mary
<br /> Macone boarded with them. In 1935, Rodney D. Harriman, an auto mechanic, and his wife Edith J., were living here, along with
<br /> Leon E. Harriman, a bank clerk in Boston, and E. Louise Harriman, presumably Leon's wife. Later occupants included John
<br /> Fowle, retired, and his wife Annie (1945) and John Gerogosian, a merchant and meat cutter, and his wife Wanda E. (1955 and
<br /> 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 /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Vol. II –Genealogies. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company,
<br /> 1913.
<br /> Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries.
<br /> http://historicsurveV.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
<br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1913, 1918, 1922, 1934, 1936.
<br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965.
<br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980.
<br /> U.S. Census: 1870, 1880, 1900, 1930, 1940.
<br /> Continuation sheet 2
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