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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This substantial Greek Revival structure was very likely designed by its <br /> builder, Curtis Capell, who built many houses in East Lexington in the second <br /> two quarters of the nineteenth century. There is a simple Greek Revival <br /> frontispiece. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) <br /> Curtis Capell (b. 1806, d. 1881) built the house in 1857, an inscription <br /> in the house tells us. Capell came to Lexington from Groton in 1832. His <br /> first job was to help build the East Lexington Branch Library in 1833. In <br /> addition to this building, he was responsible for the alterations to the Morell <br /> Dana house in 1839, and he built the Universalist Church in East Lexington (now <br /> demolished) , the residences of E.P. Nichols, Alex Wilson, Mr. Charles Brown and <br /> Mrs. Mitchell, and doubtless other structures that went up in East Lexington in <br /> the 1830s during its period of greatest economic growth. Capell seems of have <br /> been the most prolific carpenter in East Lexington, followed by Isaac Buttrick <br /> who lived adjacent on Pleasant Street. The house remained in the Capell family <br /> until the twentieth century. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to <br /> 1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 92. Boston: Houghton <br /> Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society, Volume IV, pp. 117-119. <br /> Lexington, Massachusetts:., Lexington Historical Society, 1912. <br /> 1853 map <br /> 1875 atlas <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1898 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />