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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 24 PERCY ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 495 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> This house was built for William E. Page about 1895. The Lexington Minute-Man of June 14, 1895 reports that: <br /> A gentleman by the name of Page has purchased a house lot next to the promises occupied by Mr. Edwin Read on <br /> Mt. Vermon Street, on which he proposes to build. <br /> Page apparently only occupied the house for a short time. He is listed in the 1899 and 1902 directories but is gone by <br /> 1906. There also does not appear to be a listing for Page at the time of the 1900 Census. <br /> On November 16, 1901,the Minute-Man reported that the"W.E.Page house on Mt. Vernon has been leased to the <br /> Whitneys of Brookline,the family including Mrs. Whitney,Miss Whitney and Mrs. Hay. It was Mrs. Hay's husband , <br /> who was instantly killed in the railroad accident on one of the cape trains last summer, only a month after the couple were <br /> married". <br /> Beginning about 1910,the house at 24 Percy Road was occupied for many years by Reuben B. Sherburne, son of Warren <br /> Sherburne who built and lived at 11 Percy Road. Reuben's two brothers also lived in the neighborhood—F.F. Sherburne <br /> at 1508 Massachusetts Avenue and Warren R. Sherburne at 15 Percy Road. Reuben Sherburne worked in insurance and <br /> real estate in Boston. His widow was still living here in 1942. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man,June 14, 1895,Nov. 16, 1901. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> 1898 & 1906 Atlas. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> January 2009 <br />