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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address <br /> LEXINGTON I WINTHROP RD. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. <br /> MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING <br /> 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD ® I <br /> BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 <br /> HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: <br /> This house originally stood on the west side of what is now Pelham Road,just beyond the present Eliot Road. It was <br /> occupied at one time by Albert S. Parsons. Parsons was a publisher and moved to Lexington from Cambridge in 1884. <br /> In the 1920s the house was purchased by Daniel J. O'Connell, cut into two sections and moved and reunited to its present <br /> location. There is no listing for this address in the 1926 directory but it is depicted on the May 1927 Sanborn map. <br /> Directories indicate that it was occupied by David O'Connell Jr. in 1928 and by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schmitz in 1932. <br /> BIBLIOGRAPHY: <br /> Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 519. <br /> Lexington Directories,various dates. <br /> Sanborn insurance maps, 1918, 1927. <br /> Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998,p. 31. <br /> Supplement prepared by: <br /> Lisa Mausolf <br /> December 2009 <br />