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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) This house, situated on one of Lexington's largest and most picturesque estates, holds the distinction of being the second house to have been designed by Willard Brown for the same foundation. Built thirty years after the original structure,which burned, this substantial Spanish Colonial dwelling includes features found in other buildings designed by Brown: stucco walls, red roofing;tiles, low hip roof with broad overhanging eaves, asymmetrical plan, and massing well--fitted to the site. The house incorporates a number of special features which must have resulted from collaboration between Brown and his good friend, J. Willard Hayden, (see continuation sheet) HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community.) Josiah Willard Hayden was the younger brother of Charles Hayden, philanthropist and founder of the investment banking firm of Hayden, Stone and Company. J. W. Hayden come to Lexington shortly after 1900. has first dwelling in southwest Lexington burned. In 1902 he employed Willard Brown to remodel two abandonned school houses into Ponywold, the house at 376 Lincoln Street. By 1905, Hayden had sold Ponywold. He commissioned Willard Brown to design the first Journey's End on this site on $hade Street in 1906. That house burned sometime bzfore 1937. Our knowledge of the first structure comes from plans, photographs and newspaper accounts in the album Willard Brown gave to the Lexington-Historical Society. Brown also designed an apartment for Hayden in the Somerset Hotel, Boston; the second Journey's End in 1937; and a summer home on Marblehead Neck thereafter. Hayden and Brown used to commute to Boston together, according to Brown's daughter. They collaborated on the 1915 and 1925 historical pageants in Lexington initiated by Hayden. The Hayden brothers were particularly interested in the welfare of children. J. W. Hayden endowed the Hayden Recreation Center in Lexington in his will and left the site of Journey's End to a children's hospital. The site was sold in the late 1950s to Cabot, Cabot . and Forbes Company, and for a while was to become the .location of a shopping center at the junction of Routes 2 and 128. Permission to build the shopping center was denied by the Town of Lexington, however. The current owner, Plato Spilios, purchased the property shortly thereafter. The house had stood vacant for a number of years and needed considerable repair and reglazing. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher) Brown, Willard D. , "Scrapbook", Willard D. Brown Collection, Accession No. 7051, Lexington Historical Society, Lexington, MA. Schoenhut, Sara Emily Brown, List of buildings designed by Willard D. Brown, 1984, In possession of Anne Grady. Spilios, Plato, personal communication Worthen, Edwin B., "J. Willard Hayden", Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library 10M - 7/82