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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET [Property unity: Form No: MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL CCtri�ffSSION Lexington 586 Office of the Secretary, Boston Name: 271 Marrett Road Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE The oldest part of the house is apparently the ell, to the left. Here the clapboards have a narrower weather than on the rest of the house. The interior of this part was restored in the 1920s and the current fireplace there was built then. The next portion of the house to have been built is the five-bay-wide, one- room-deep section which stands closer to the street than the original ell. Evidence suggests that this part was built in the Second period. Beaded beams are seen in a closet and in one bedroom, and there is nogging in the walls. SPNEA is said to have uncovered evidence in the 1960s that this part originally had a central chimney and that the chimney was replaced during the Federal period with rear chimneys. The house received a thorough remodeling in the Federal period. A through-stairhall with straight run stairs was put in, new mantels installed, and floors stenciled. In the 1970s a two-story addition with low pitch roof was built across the rear of the house to accommodate a restaurant. At one time there was a porch across the front. It has now been removed. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - now standing at 419 Marrett Road; John received the property centering on 170-172 Middleby Road (whether the original house of c. 1730 is incorporated into the present structure is uncertain) ; Matthew received property on Trapelo Road in Waltham (the house is no longer standing) ; and Samuel received the homestead at 271 Marrett Road. Samuel Bridge (b. 1705, d. 1791) served as selectman from 1758 to 1760 and helped to draft instructions for the town's representative in the years before the Revolution. During the Revolution Samuel Bridge served in campaigns in New Jersey, Bennington, Vermont, and Cambridge even though he was 70 years of age when the war started. The property descended in the Bridge family until sold in 1847 to Jonas C. Wellington. Wellington sold in 1854 to Robert and Morris Copeland who were land- scape gardeners. The property passed in 1860 to Bradley Clarke, and in 1872 to the Osborne family. Next owner was Francis Kendall who operated a farm here. In the early 1900s Harry Kelsey owned it. In 1917 Neil McIntosh acquired the property and began to divide up the land. "He set up a corporation, took in shareholders, and developed the area into the present house lots" (Scigliano 1969) . In the 1920s the house served as the Proving Kitchen for recipes printed in Priscilla magazine and the house itself was featured in many issues in articles written by Della T. Lutes. In the late 1920s the house became a highly successful restaurant called "The Old House," operated by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Heywood. In 1966 the house was acquired by Dr. and Mrs. David Smith who restored it. Staple to Inventory form at bottom