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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON 1 UPLAND ROAD <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 397 <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> The original owner of this house was a Mr. Saunders. According to a brief mention appearing in the Minute-man on <br /> August 2, 1895,the house was built"last winter". The January 14, 1898 Minute-man noted that Herbert Saunders had <br /> sold his Upland Road house and moved out of town. <br /> By 1906 the house was occupied by Edward Sargent,who worked as a private secretary in Boston and lived here with his <br /> wife and two young sons. The Sargent family continued to live here into the early 1920s. In 1926 the house was <br /> occupied by John Proctor. In the 1930s and as late as 1942, Charles Whipple, a Boston merchant. lived here. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Lexington Minute-Man,March 16, 1894;August 3, 1894;August 2, 1895;January 14, 1898. <br /> Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge, Mass. <br /> U.S. Census Records, 1900-1930. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> June 2009 <br />