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BUILDING FORM <br /> ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. <br /> 16 Manley Ct. is one of several Federal houses in Lexington that have been moved from Massachusetts Ave.to a new site; other <br /> examples are at 11 Vine Brook Rd. (MHC#680), 14 Sherman St. (MHC#675),and 137 Grant St. (MHC#678). This house <br /> is rectangular, 2'/z stories, five-by-two bays,and side-gabled with two rear chimneys. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with <br /> aluminum siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. Additions include an entry porch,a triple window to the north of the main <br /> entry, and an enclosed porch at the rear. The center entrance is flanked by simple pilasters and half-length sidelights with panels <br /> underneath;windows are 6/1 double hung sash. <br /> HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑see continuation sheet <br /> Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the <br /> role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. <br /> This house was originally on the south side of Massachusetts Ave. in Lexington Center where Decelle's is now located directly <br /> opposite what is now Edison Way. Deed research indicates that this house was built in 1832 by a Lexington physician named <br /> Leonard Proctor, for in October 1831 Proctor bought the lot on which the house was later located and in August 1832 sold half of <br /> the house he had erected on the"building lot"he had purchased the year before. The fact that the house was intended to be a <br /> double one explains its profile,which is unusually deep for a Federal house. In 1836 Proctor,who by then lived in Boston, sold <br /> the other half of the house, and the two halves continued to be owned separately until 1846. Deeds for this period describe the <br /> property line as being along the"back side of the barn,"which was apparently on the east half of the lot, and a"partition"throug <br /> the house and cellar. The property also included a shed, which was apparently shared by both halves. In 1871 the house was <br /> acquired by Freeborn Raymond(1812-1903), a Boston businessman who had been a councilman, assessor, school committeeman, <br /> and commissioner in Boston and who moved to Lexington in 1855 presumably because that year he married Sarah Richardson, the <br /> daughter of Aaron Richardson,who owned property nearby on Massachusetts Ave. (see 11 Vine Brook Rd. [MHC#680] form). <br /> After Raymond's death this house was moved to Manley Ct. sometime between 1906 and 1908, for a 1906 map shows it still on <br /> its original site on Massachusetts Ave. but a 1908 map shows that it was no longer there. Worthen describes it about 1941 as a <br /> double house, but it is now a single-family residence. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet <br /> Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 316: 392; 316: 393; 349: 266; 361: 6; 494: 505; 1170: 476. <br /> Sanborn Map Company. Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1908. Pl. 4. <br /> Walker, George H. & Co. Atlas of Middlesex County,Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker&Co., 1906. Pl. 36. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned,torn down, and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. Cary Library, <br /> Lexington, Mass. #91 <br /> ❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National <br /> Register Criteria Statement form. <br />