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MINUTES OF ADJOURNED MEETING HELD
ON APRIL 10, 1968
The Lexington Historic Districts Commission held an adjourned
meeting on V~ednesday~ April 10, 1968, in the Selectmen's Room, Town
Office Building. Members present were Commissioners Talax H. Straw,
elected upon motion dulq made and seconded and unanimously VOTED
Chairman Pro Tempore, due to the absence of Chairman Wilbur M. Ja-
quith, Philip B. Parsons, Secretary, Ruth G. Bevan. and George E.
Graves and Associate Commissioner George 1N. Emerq.
Adjourned hearing was held at 7:30 P.M. on the application of
Village Artisans, Inc. for a Certificate of Appropriateness with
respect to the erection and display of a sign for the building at
1632 Massachusetts Avenu®,, which is within the Battle Green Dis-
trict. Mrs. Vivian Wolfe appeared and presented scale drawings of
the proposed sign. After discussion and agreement on a modifica-
tion in size of the sign, upon motion duly made and seconded, it
was unanimously VOTED to issue a Certificate to the applicant. No
other persons having appeared, the adjourned hearing was closed at
8:0o P.M.
Adjourned hearing was held at 8:45 P.M. on the application of
Lexington Sister City Couunittee for a Certificate of ,Appropriate-
ness with respect to the erection and display of a sign at 13 Depot
.Square, which is within the Battle Green District. No one appeared
in behalf of the applicant, but the Chairman Pro Tempore read a
letter from Mrs. Charles Crothers, a member of the Committee. Mrs.
,Crothers explained that the Building Inspector had approved of the
use of an existing sign on the premises. Upon motion duly made and
seconded, it was unanimously VOTED to issue a Certificate to the
applicant. No other persons having app®ared, the adjourned hearing
was closed at 8:54 P.M.
The next meeting night is scheduled for Wednesdaq, April 24,
1968, in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:55 P=M.
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Philip B. Parsons
Secretary
April 17, 1968
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wichrespectto the erection and display of a sign
for the building
as noted below, ac .,,1632 Massachusetts Avenue .
which is within the .Battle Greeri District
The sign is to be located on the Massachusetts Avenue front eleva- ,
tion of the said building suspended and centered under the porch
roof beam. The sign is to bear the legend:
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The design, layout and style of the lettering and of the sign appear
on a scale drawing submitted to the Commission at the adjourned
hearing. on April lQ, 1968. The letters of the sign are to be in
black outline on a white signboard. As a modification of the sketch
as submitted to the Commission it is provided that the height and
width of th® sign shall each be reduced as nearly as possible to
twenty-four inches (21~tt). Vdith reference to the display of the sign
it shall be suspended close under the specified beam without the
use of a bracket as sketched.
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with respect to tho erection and display of a sign
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The sign is to be located parallel to Pdassachusetts Avenue near the
northerly elevation of the Depositors Trust Building attached
perpendicularly to the face of the building in the position of the
existing sign. The sign is to bear on two faces the legend: "The
Pdexican Shop La Tienda" and may bear the symbol of clasped hands at
the lower left corner also outlined in black on a white background
measuring S" x ~0". ~
The general design, layout and size of lettering and symbol appear
on or may be scaled from a drawing submitted to the Commission at
its adjourned meeting on April 10, 1968. The style of the letters
in that portion of the le~end "The Mexican Shop" shall be thick and
thin Roman and "La Tienda shall be in single stroke Gothic. The
two portions of the legend may be separated by a black line.
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