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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> Lexington 3 Ingleside Rd. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Areas) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 646 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) <br /> In 1906 the farm was purchased by the wife of Charles W. Ryder,who lived in Newtonville and was a wool merchant with <br /> an office in the wool district in South Boston. The Ryders developed the Lexington farm into the Ryder Stock Farm,which <br /> raised short horn milking cattle,hogs, and apples,and sold pigs, cattle,and cider. The Ryders later purchased the Augustus <br /> E. Scott house,the large Shingle style house at 277 Waltham St. (MHC#461), using it as a residence in the summer and <br /> their Newtonville house in the winter. This house, which then had a Maple St. address, was occupied by Mrs. A. E. Ryder. <br /> The Ryders also acquired the houses now at 20 and 44 Maple St. (MHC#649 and 654);the farm manager lived in the <br /> latter and the former was sometimes rented to farm workers. The Ryders owned the farm until the mid-1950s. In 1961 the <br /> enormous Ryder barn burned, and probably at about that time the flat Italianate roof of the house with its lantern and wide <br /> overhang was replaced with the present hip roof. <br />