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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 87 Pleasant Street MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This house was constructed in 1952 by architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr. for Albert&Miriam Goldman,just a short distance from two other Stubbins' designs at 3 & 6 Dover Lane and the Moon Hill development which was created by The Architects Collaborative(TAC). Like the other contemporary houses,the Stubbins House exhibits the influence of the International Style and was sited to blend in with the rural character of the property. The house is capped by a gable roof displaying a considerable overhang. The structure rests on a cinder block foundation. Exterior walls are constructed of two by four studs and four by four posts which are sheathed with vertical tongue and groove boarding. Windows include casements and large fixed glass windows which are without trim. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 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. This house was designed by architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr. (1912-2006)in 1952-3 for Albert&Miriam Goldman. Stubbins lived nearby at 6 Dover Lane and also designed the house at 3 Dover Lane. Inside,the house at 87 Pleasant Street originally contained the work of Japanese-American furniture maker George Nakashima. The house remained in the Goldman family until 2006 when it was sold to Isaac Silvera. Hugh Stubbins graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1931 and was awarded the MArch by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1935. In the late 1930s he worked briefly with Royal Barry Wills. At the invitation of Walter Gropius, Stubbins taught for more than a decade during the 1940's and 1950's at the GSD; in 1954 he left teaching to devote himself to his architectural firm,which was to become a highly successful international practice. Stubbins is perhaps best-known as the architect of large-scale structures which have become recognizable landmarks in urban skylines: the Berlin Kongresshalle, Manhattan's Citicorp Building and Boston's Federal Reserve Bank. Stubbins is also widely recognized for his education-related designs,which range from a number of suburban schools to Harvard's Countway Library,Pusey Library and Loeb Drama Center(Harvard University, Stubbins Collection). The original owner,Albert L. Goldman(d. 2004),graduated from Harvard Law School in 1946.During his 56-year legal career, he was an advocate for the labor movement and an authority on advising all phases of a union's activities. He joined the law firm now known as Angoff, Goldman,Manning,Pyle,Wanger&Hiatt in Boston in 1948 and went on to become its president. He advocated for the teachers'union during the Boston school busing controversy in the 1970s and pioneered the establishment of employee health and welfare benefit funds in Massachusetts. He served in the Naval Aviation Service,where he flew on dirigibles and worked as a cryptographer(Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 2005). Continuation sheet 1