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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within community) <br /> Set on side of hill - 2 stories left, 3 stories right and back - double front <br /> door with light, pedimented with fluted flat columns, long narrow double windows <br /> each side front door 6/6 panes, <br /> one-story bay window <br /> at right side on open porch with lower level porch under - 1 chimney right rear <br /> roof, left outside ch;:--n,-iey - porch extends across back at lst floor level. <br /> (See Continuation Sheet) <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history <br /> and how the building relates to the development of the community) <br /> This is the only house left in Lexington which is associated with <br /> Charles Clinton Goodwin (1839-1905) , a prominent late nineteenth century <br /> resident, although Goodwin Road bears the family name. Goodwin was a <br /> SIS cia <br /> "wholesale druggist, an officer in various druggist s'Ma .- a member of a <br /> church choir for 47 years" (Hudson, II, p. 245) . Goodwin moved to Lexington <br /> permanently in 1863 and in 1883 built a large estate north of Meriam Street <br /> (now demolished) . He was a member of the first board of trustees of the <br /> Lexington Savings Bank. When between 1875 and 1889 or for whom Goodwin <br /> built this house has not been determined. <br /> EIBLIOGRAFHY and/or REFERENCES <br /> Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, vol. II (Boston: Houghton <br /> Mifflin Co. , 1913,) . <br /> 20M-2/BO <br />