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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 6 ROWLAND AVE. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 477 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> A brief mention appearing in the Lexington Minute-Man on September 29, 1906, confirms that this house was moved to <br /> its present house in that year to make room for a new house being erected by Benjamin Fitch at what is now 1454 Mass. <br /> Ave. The article notes: <br /> l <br /> The frame is up and boarded in for Mr. Benjamin Fitch's new house on the site of the former residence of Albert <br /> Griffith's family known as"The Lilacs"....The old house which years ago was known as the Aunt Lucindy <br /> Munroe place, is now placed on a rear lot of land to the east of its former position and is being occupied by Mr. <br /> Fitch's family while his new house is building. The old place just alluded to was also known at one time, before <br /> the Griffiths occupied it, as the D. Cutts Nye place. The old ell of the main structure was moved off the premises <br /> on Tuesday and presented a curious sight as it proceeded up Mass. avenue on wheels. <br /> The house at 6 Rowland Avenue was still owned by Benjamin's daughter, Mary Fitch, in the 1920s. Later owners <br /> included Leon and Emma Kinsman who sold it to Mario and Marianne Plaff in 1954. The Plaffs continued to own the <br /> property until 1993. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man, Sept. 29, 1906. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass. <br /> U.S. Census <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> February 2009 <br />