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IASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
'.94 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Edward Goodwin Reed
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
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Approx. acreage 69061 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Suburban residential street with
Organization Lexington Historical Commission many substantial houses of similar or
Date March, 1984 slightly earlier date.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This well-propportioned Colonial Revival house is strikingly modern in
feeling for its 1906 construction date. The portico is a distinctive design
of fluted columns, latticework and crossed support beams with exposed shaped
ends very Japanese in feeling. Similar exposed beams form the porch to the
left. The architect of this building was educated at Harvard (AB 1908) and
studied architecture in Paris for one-and-a-half years. He practiced in
Lexington for ten years or so and then moved to California. His mother ran
the Wildacre Inn at 50 Percy Road. He also designed 43 Highland Avenue adjacent.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The house was built by Francis Smith Dane, a rubber boot and shoe
manufacturer in Boston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
`} Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 573. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. �P
Personal communication from Marsha Dane. (da'(AJi
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