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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6 MERIAM STREET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 �H 2143 Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. The Church of Our Redeemer was constructed in 1956-57 on a previously undeveloped lot. The property was owned by the Stetson heirs in 1898 and afterwards by the Boston & Maine Railroad, which had a small one-story freight house standing near the intersection of the railroad tracks and Meriam Street(1927, 1935). The adjacent residential subdivision of Patriots Drive was laid out and developed between 1935 and 1950 on part of what had been the Goodwin estate. The first Episcopal services were held in Lexington in 1883. The congregation was recognized as a mission of the Episcopal Church in 1884 and incorporated as a parish in 1885. Construction of a new church building Street began almost immediately, on land purchased at the corner of Oakland and Meriam streets (17 Meriam Street). Designed by Boston architect E. A. P. Newcomb, the church hosted its first service in 1886 and was consecrated in 1887. As Lexington's population swelled after World War II, the growing and active congregation needed a larger facility. Land across the street from the original building was purchased in 1954. Designed by architect Edward Bridge, the new church was dedicated in 1957. A parish house was added to the site in 1966. The old church building was sold to the Greek Orthodox Church of Lexington (St. Nicholas) in 1965. Little is presently known of the architect Edward Melville Bridge. He lived in Wakefield, graduated from MIT's department of architecture in 1913, worked as a draftsman for Coolidge & Carlson, and was a professor of architecture at MIT in the 1930s. MACRIS, the MHC database, identifies Bridge with 22 properties in eastern Massachusetts into the 1960s; all but one are ecclesiastical buildings. Bridge reportedly designed two other buildings in Lexington: St. Brigid's Church at 1985 Massachusetts Avenue (1957) and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 1386 Massachusetts Avenue (1966). BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Bacon, Mardges. LeCorbusierin America. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. Church of Our Redeemer website. "History." http://www.our-redeemer.net/about-us/history/ Accessed Jul 27, 2015. Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935, 1935/1950. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Kelley, Beverly Allison. Lexington;A Century of Photographs. Boston, Mass.: Lexington Historical Society, 1980. Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period Summaries. http://historicsurveV.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015. Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980. . MACRIS database. Accessed Jul 27, 2015. (See especially QU1.344 and WAK.299) Technology Review, Volume 16. "Class Notes." [Cambridge, Mass.:] Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1914. Continuation sheet 2