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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address Lexington 109 Massachusetts Ave. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 634 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (continued) lived in the house at 18 Independence Ave. (MHC#644)where he ran a butchering business. When he moved to this house he went into the business of buying, selling,and boarding horses,which he pastured near Great Meadow. Worthen describes Mr. Alderman as "short, stout,florid, and excitable" and very argumentative at town meeting. The Alderman family owned this house into the 20th century. An 1898 map shows the house with an series of rear ells connecting it with the barn,which is now detached and a separate property at 3 Bow St. (MHC#635). The present rear ell was reportedly built in the 1940s as a dance hall. On March 1, 1948,a fire destroyed the old side-gabled roof, which was then replaced with the present hip one. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (continued) Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. 68. Stadley, George W. & Co. Atlas of the Towns of Watertown, Belmont, Arlington and Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George W. Stadley &Co., 1898. Pl. 32. Lexington Minute-man. 4 March 1948. Douglas Touart, personal communication 1998.