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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> one of the ample houses characteristic of eriam Hill, this house with <br /> inforuial plan and picturesque massing is embellished with modillions at the <br /> eaves and an eyebrow window. There is a dentil course on the pedimented <br /> cable on the right side, and one window is finished with a cap which <br /> suggests in minimal terms a broken scroll pediment. <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 /> The marriage in 1894 of the offspring of two prominent families in <br /> Lexington was an event well-chronicled by the Lexington .iinute Pian. Edward <br /> Porter Tierriam was the son of I,latthew H. Merriam whose shoe findings factory <br /> on Oakland Street was "the principal manufacturing establishment in <br /> Lexington" (Hurd, I, n. 631) . Alice Goodwin was the daughter of Charles C. <br /> Goodwin, wholesale druggist in Boston, whose large estate was opposite <br /> Stetson Street on ieriam Street. Evidently the father of the bride built <br /> them. a house. The Lexington Minute Han (March 16, 1894) states, "Architect <br /> and builder John I.ay of agnolia was in Town Tuesday on business relative <br /> to the building of a house on Stetson Road for 1dr. Chas. C. Goodwin. The <br /> contract was given to the DeVeau Bros. " play, the newspaper continues, was <br /> building many houses in the "growing summer resort of :IagnoliaZ, iMassachusettsi" <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 Societe, Volume II, pp. 245, 432. Boston: <br /> Houghton t'ifflin Companv, 1913. rr p <br /> Lexington =`inute flan, march 16, 18941 <br /> 1889 atlas <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> :turd, D. Hamilton, ed., History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol. I, (Phila- <br /> delphia: J,W. Lewis & Co. , 1890 <br /> 10M - 7/82 <br />
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