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ARCHITECTURAL. SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and <br /> evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.) <br /> This house has lost all its exterior finishes and its three-bay-long, <br /> one-room-wide, two-story-high profile gives no indication that it is in any way <br /> different from many nearby nineteenth century houses. This house was, however, <br /> built c. 1870 and moved to this location c. 1907. <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state <br /> history and how the building relates to the development of the comunity.) <br /> This house was originally on Massachusetts Avenue just to the east of <br /> St. Brigid's Church. It was built by William Ham (1818-1891) , a Lexington <br /> blacksmith whose shop was on the property, for his son William F. (1846-1908) , <br /> also a blacksmith. On the basis of map evidence and William F. Ham's age, the <br /> house was probably constructed c. 1870. After his father's death, William F. <br /> Ham continued to occupy the house and blacksmith shop until about 1899; he <br /> then sold it to a Patrick J. Keenan, a wool dealer in Boston. The house still <br /> appears adjacent to St. Brigid's on the 190.6 map, but on the 1908 map the house <br /> in that location has a completely differont' conf gdration,I so presumably this_ <br /> house -,ras moved-to Utica Street between those two years in order to make way <br /> for the new house on Massachusetts Avenue. <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. 263. Boston: <br /> Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. <br /> Mulliken, Everett. Some of My Recollections of the Houses in the Vicinity of <br /> the Common and the People who Lived in Them. Typescript. Worthen Collection, <br /> Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. <br /> Worthen, Edwin. Notes Made in 1941-1942. No. 66, Worthen Collection, Cary <br /> Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. <br /> 1876 map 1887 Directory <br /> 1889 map 1894 Directory <br /> 1898 map 1899 Directory <br /> 1906 map 1906 Directory <br /> 1908 Sanborn atlas - <br /> lQM - 7/82 <br />