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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address Lexington 11 Larchmont Ln. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 762, 763 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE(continued) School in honor of Charles Tidd, the teacher there for many years. With the consolidation of Lexington elementary schools into the Adams and the new Hancock School in 1891,the old district schools were closed. The Tidd School was reopened briefly in 1896, however,to relieve overcrowding at Hancock but closed for good in 1903. George Taylor bought the old school at the 1906 auction and moved it to Larchmont Farm,where it served as a barn. An historical photograph of the building when it was a school shows the cupola,then an open bell tower, set near the front of the building,which then had two identical doorways, one for girls and one for boys. Another historical photograph of the building after it was moved shows the cupola in its present position,the doors in the gable end blocked up, and a barn door installed on the side of the building under the wall dormer. Lexington assessors' records indicate that the farmhouse on Larchmont Farm, which appears to be Queen Anne in style, was actually not built until 1913. The farmhouse was occupied by Joseph Tropeano, the farm foreman, and his family. Beginning in 1928,Lexington Directory's list Joseph Tropeano as the proprietor rather than the foreman of Larchmont Farm,but the Tropeanos did not actually buy the property until 1934 after the death of the Taylor's daughter,and they still own it. The farm, which raised vegetables that were sold to Boston hotels, continued to operate until 1949;the land is now used by Larchmont Engineering, which sells irrigation products. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued) Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 2457: 67; 5802: 61. Tony Tropeano, personal communication 1998. Worthen, Edwin B. A Calendar History of Lexington,Massachusetts, 1620-1946. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Savings Bank, 1946. 91, 97, 100, 102.