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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No: <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COR4IISSION Lexington 382 <br /> Office of the Secretary, Boston <br /> Property Name: 20 Meriam Street <br /> Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below. <br /> ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> Library and 28 Meriam Street) . The house at 20 Ideriam Street was well received. <br /> It gained an award for the best design for a house costing under $10,000 from <br /> Beautiful Homes magazine and was featured in the March 1909 issue. Plans and <br /> further description of the building are in the possession of the Lexington <br /> Historical Society. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE <br /> design features, and the use of fieldstone, stucco, and shingles. Roofs are <br /> occasionally enlivened by the curving up of the eave line into a flattened <br /> ellipse, a form which particularly appealed to Brown (see 28 Meriam Street form) . <br /> Brown designed furniture for some of his buildings. <br /> Perhaps Brown's most creative structure was "Journey's End," designed in <br /> 1 '0 :• for J. Willard Hayden as a summer house. The <br /> brick-paved stair hall of this house w�,:s lighted by electric lights submerged in <br /> a central pool and dispersed through prisms of glass. The staircase was finished <br /> with rough logs and branched elm sticks as a balustrade (see 110 Shade Street <br /> form) . <br /> Brown also designed in a fairly correct Colonial style, particularly in <br /> his later buildings, and collaborated with the other architect who resided in <br /> Lexington at the time, Wm. Roger Greeley of Kilham, Greeley and Hopkins, on <br /> Cary Memorial Hall built in 1927. <br /> Staple to Inventory form at bottom <br />