|
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 519 LOWELL STREET
<br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
<br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
<br /> 2243
<br /> this time would be stylistically early, but not entirely inconceivable. Further research is recommended to establish more
<br /> conclusively the date of the house and uses of the property.
<br /> The earliest known occupants of 519 Lowell Street were Nicholas D. Comeau, a house carpenter, who lived here with his wife
<br /> Eugenia M. and their four children beginning at least by 1906. Both French Canadians, Nicholas (a widower) and Eugenie
<br /> Comeau were married in 1908; Nicholas may have built the house himself soon after. Although Nicholas's occupation was
<br /> consistently identified as carpenter, the 1920 census does describe the property as a farm, with a farm schedule. Agriculture
<br /> may have been a sideline for the Comeau family.
<br /> Nicholas Comeau was still living here in 1945 (then retired), accompanied by Harold W. Koford, a foreman. By 1955, the
<br /> property was occupied by an unusually large number of adults: Ralph E. Coward, a laborer, and his wife Joyce N.; James
<br /> McDonnell, a hospital worker; Philip Tullar, a carpenter; and Sherman Weaver, a laborer, and his wife Jacqueline. In 1965,
<br /> Courtney C. Comeau, an electrician (likely Nicholas's grandson), Carol A. Comeau, a nurse, and Evelyn E. Cote, who worked at
<br /> Sylvania, lived at this address.
<br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
<br /> Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,
<br /> Inc., 2013. Original data: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840-1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston,
<br /> Massachusetts.
<br /> Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
<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 Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period Summaries. http://historicsurvey.lexingtonma.gov/index.htm
<br /> Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
<br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1906, 1908-09, 1913, 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: 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
<br /> SUPPLEMENTARY IMAGES
<br /> 5 1
<br /> 4444
<br /> J� -
<br /> Assessors photograph: West (fagade)and south elevations
<br /> Continuation sheet 2
<br />
|