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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address LEXINGTON 33 MARRETT RD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 610 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The brick building now used as a Masonic headquarters was constructed in 1905 for Richard Gleason Tower(1857- 1921),youngest child of William Augustus Tower(1824-1904). On August 19, 1905,the Lexington Minute-Man reported that"Mr. Richard Tower's new house, on Middle street,not far from his old home, is commenced, inasmuch as Mr. Bartlett Harrington will build the cellar and John Daley,with men, is making the necessary excavation". Tower's previous home was destroyed by fire. A few months later,Richard Tower married Henrietta Lockwood(Minute-Man, Oct. 7, 1905). The Richard Tower House was designed by Boston architects Fehmer and Page(Carl Fehmer and Samuel F. Page). Carl Fehmer was born in Germany in 1835. He immigrated to the U.S.with his mother and siblings in 1852 and attended public school in Boston. He received training in the office of prominent Boston architect George Snell for eight years before beginning an architectural practice some time during the 1860s. He performed all of the architectural work for the Massachusetts General Hospital for 25 years and later designed a number of buildings for the McLean Hospital as well as a number of Back Bay houses and lesser numbers of residences in Brookline, Easton, and Weston. Fehmer was a charter member of the Boston Society of Architects. The firm of Fehmer and Page formed about 1890. Fehmer died in Boston in 1917. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lexington Minute-Man,Aug. 19, 1905; Oct. 7, 1905. Massachusetts Historical Commission,MACRIS database. www.bosarchitecture.com http://en.wikipedia.org Supplement prepared by: Lisa Mausolf Feb.2009