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ARCHITE("TURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This building and two similar cottages on Glen Road are some of the few <br /> Shingle Style houses on Meriam Hill, an area of predominantly Queen Anne and <br /> Colonial Revival style structures. Notable features are the gambrel roof <br /> extendinu down over the second level, the porch with simple brackets, shingled <br /> brackets at the overhanging ends, and leaded glass sidelights at the doorway. <br /> A nearly identical building found on Forest Street, second from the corner of <br /> Clarke Street, may have been built by the same builder/speculator. <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 /> One of at least four houses built speculatively in the Upland Road area <br /> by Abr,m C. t°]ashburn, Lexington's most prolific late nineteenth and early <br /> twentieth century builder (see 4 Glen Road form for more information on <br /> Washburn) . The house was bought from Washburn by Fred and Alice Cloyes. Mr. <br /> Cloyes was a salesman. <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 Society, Volume II, p. 116. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin, 1913. <br /> 1898 map <br /> 1906 atlas <br /> 10M - 7/'82 <br />