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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address LEXINGTON 15 WINTHROP ROAD MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 471 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE(continued): There are four rooms on the second floor, besides the house bath. One of the rooms is to be used as a sewing room and is to be decorated in the Dutch style. Two of the chambers are finished in natural cypress, with dainty flowered papers in pleasing contrasts of tones. The main chamber is a large room with an open fireplace and a roomy toilet room leading out of it, including a shower bath cased in white marble. The coloring is blue and the paint white enamel. The large linen closet is in the hall and is quite a model of convenience,with its numerous drawers, lockers and cupboards. All the sanitary arrangements in the bath room and elsewhere are handsome and the lighting fixtures are highly artistic. On the third floor are two good rooms,besides a store room. The cellar is equipped with a steam heating apparatus, a laundry,toilet, cold closet and fuel bins. There are other incidentals about the house that add to its beauty and comfort, but Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson's many friends will no doubt have an opportunity to inspect the handsome new home and thus get a better idea of it than a newspaper article can give. J. Chester and Lucy Hutchinson only occupied the house until about 1913. By 1915 they were living at 6 Adams Street. Frank Brown, brother of architect Willard Brown and worked at a bank in Boston, is listed as living here in the 1915 and 1918 directories. The house at 15 Winthrop Road was owned and occupied by Arthur and Minnie Maddison from about 1922 until at least 1942. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lexington directories,various dates. Lexington Minute-Man,August 26, 1905. Supplement prepared by: Lisa Mausolf March 2009