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HISTORIC DISTRICTS COMMISSION
MINUTES OF ADJOURNED MEETING HELD ON DECEMBER 18, 1968
The Historic Districts Commission held an adjourned meeting on
Wednesday, December 18, 1968, at 7:45 P.M:., in the Selectmen' s Room,
Town Office Building, Lexington. Members present were Commissioners
Wilbur M. Jaquith, Chairman, Philip B. Parsons, Secretary, Ruth G.
Bevan, George E. Graves and Max H. Straw and Associate Commissioner
George W. Emery.
An informal meeting was held at 7:L5 P.M. with respect to signs
that have been erected and displayed on the roofs of Lexington Cab
Co. , Inc taxicabs . Present were Richard Zimmerman, President of the
cab company, Arthur Herald, Agent for the William P . Whaley Co. and
George E. Rowe, Jr. who represented Rowe Chevrolet, Inc. , one of two
advertisers presently displayed on the taxicabs . Frederick J. Con-
roy, Esquire appeared briefly at the meeting but did not partici-
pate . Discussion was held as to the proper applicant to submit an
application for a Certificate of Appropriateness with respect to
the signs . Mr. Herald will submit the application at a later date .
The informal meeting was closed at 9:25 P.M.
The Chairman read to the members a letter received from Albert
Gray, Jr. , Executive Assistant to the Selectmen, stating that Lincoln
P. Cole, Jr. had resigned as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen and
that Robert Cataldo was the newly elected Chairman. A letter re-
ceived by the Chairman of the Commission from Chairman Cataldo was
also read. The letter named the following appointments as Associate
Commissioners :
S . Lawrence Whipple
Franklin C . Hudson
Gladys Moore
The Chairman dictated letters of welcome to the new members of
the Commission. Letters also dictated to the Clerk were sent to
nfir. Robert 0. Tillinghast with respect to the property being restored
by him at 1473 Massachusetts Avenue where a second floor window with
one pane was installed instead of an Anderson casement window shown
on plans under which a Certificate of Appropriateness was issued and
to Village Artisans, Inc . with respect to signs and a banner being
displayed at the shop at 1632 Massachusetts Avenue for which a Cer-
tificate of Appropriateness has not been issued.
The next meeting nights are scheduled for January 8, 1969 at
7:145 P.M. and January 15, 1969 at 7:30 P.M. If extensions from
January 15, 1969 are received from the pending applications of First
Parish Church and Frederic K. and Marjorie S . Johnson, the January 8th
meeting will be cancelled.
The adjourned meeting was adjourned at 10. 2;4. 7
"Philip B. Parsons
Secretary