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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> Greek Revival features of this building include the closed pediment, <br /> broad frieze, panelled corner pilaster, and fluted columns on the porch <br /> (columns have no entasis) . This is one of two substantial but simply finished <br /> dwellings in the style near each other on Marrett Road. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> The house was owned in 1853 by Abel Eliab Bridge, a descendant of <br /> Matthew Bridge who owned the farm at 271 Marrett Road in the eighteenth century. <br /> A.E. Bridge moved back to Lexington from Vermont c. 1850, and must have then <br /> built this house on the family's property. <br /> By 1875 the house was owned by Franklin Patch. His son, Oscar Llewellyn <br /> Patch inherited the property. Oscar was first a machinist and then an engineer <br /> at the Bedford Springs Hotel. He sold the house before 1899 and by 1906 he was <br /> living at 16 Winthrop Road. <br /> The next owner was John P. Nelligan, a provisions dealer, who lived in <br /> Cambridge at first and must have purchased the property as a market garden farm. <br /> In the early twentieth century the farm was bought by Henning Swenson and <br /> his brother who were dairy farmers. The Swensons started farming in 1908 at <br /> 29 Allen Street nearby. After moving to Marrett Road, they had 100 cows, <br /> employed 18 laborers and sold milk to the community. <br /> The house is still owned by the Swenson family, but the acreage of the <br /> farm is now conservation land. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 56, 60, 519. <br /> Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Research notes by Yvonne Schwemmer, 1976. <br /> 1830 map <br /> 1853 map <br /> 1875 atlas 1887 Directory <br /> 1889 atlas 1894 Directory <br /> 1898 atlas 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 atlas 1906 Directory <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />