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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 11 STEVENS ROAD
<br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
<br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
<br /> 2266
<br /> The western stub of Stevens Road, then named Cary Street, was in place by 1927, with buildings on all three of the lots platted
<br /> there. The eastern end, off Taft Avenue, was laid out and three lots platted out by 1935, but no houses were yet constructed
<br /> there. (The eastern end was also named Cary Street.) As late as 1935, a very long and narrow, undeveloped and unplatted
<br /> parcel-200 to 300 feet wide and more than one-third of a mile long—extended south of Massachusetts Avenue between
<br /> Charles Street and Taft Avenue. The ends of Stevens Road were finally connected by 1950, when all the land was platted and
<br /> all but one of the lots was developed. The name Cary Street was replaced by Stevens Road between 1955 and 1965.
<br /> The house at 11 Stevens Road appears on the 1927 Sanborn map. A one-story, square accessory building, likely a garage,
<br /> appeared on the property by 1935. No longer extant, it was set to the left and in back of he house. The building's first known
<br /> occupants, in 1922, were Charles L. Parker, a superintendent, and his wife Jennie C. Parker. Charles Parker was, from 1934 to
<br /> 1937, Captain Commanding of the Lexington Minute Men, an independent, ceremonial militia unit that was formed in 1689 and
<br /> chartered in 1910.
<br /> Charles and Jennie Parker lived here with their two children; Charles Jr., a salesman, remained here as late as 1935. By 1940,
<br /> residents included Clyde T. Butcher, who worked as an auto mechanic and chauffeur, his wife Kathleen J. Butcher, a store clerk
<br /> and "corsetiere", their young son, and Clyde's sister-in-law Dorcas E. Clark, an office clerk. The Butcher family lived here
<br /> through at least 1945. Subsequent residents included George H. Phelan, a salesman, and his wife Rose (1955 and 1965).
<br /> Their daughter Rosemary, a secretary, lived with them in 1965.
<br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
<br /> Historic maps and atlases: Walling 1853; Beers 1875; Walker 1889; Stadly 1898; Walker 1906; Sanborn 1908, 1918, 1927,
<br /> 1935, 1935/1950.
<br /> Lexington Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey, Period and Area Summaries.
<br /> http://historicsurvey.Iexingtonma.gov/index.htm Accessed Jul 23, 2015.
<br /> Lexington Directories: 1899, 1908-09, 1922, 1928, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942.
<br /> Lexington List of Persons: 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965.
<br /> Massachusetts Historical Commission. "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lexington." 1980.
<br /> . Form A– Liberty Heights, LEX.Q. Prepared by Anne Grady and Nancy Seasholes, 1984 and 2001.
<br /> Personal communication with Sam Doran, Lexington Historical Commission. September 2015.
<br /> U.S. Census: 1920, 1930, 1940.
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<br /> South (fagade)and east(right side)elevations
<br /> Continuation sheet 2
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