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294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
Lexington
Iress 24 Clarke Street
;toric Name Redman. House
Present residential
11 Original residential
)ESCRIPTION:
to 1886
30urce Lexington I,linute 11an, llay 21, 1886
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Shingle Style vernacular
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect 1�,bram C, Washburn, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric cla_nboards, shingles
Indicate north.
Outbuildings garage
O � Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Date
Approx. acreage 1q,501 t't..2
Recorded by .nne Grady, Nancy S. Seasholes Setting Across from the former Hancock
Organization Lexington Historical Co an.ission School; in an area developed in the late
Date April, 1964 nineteenth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house has the nicturescue massing and patterned shingle finish
characteristic of O UCe,Yo At n e and Shingle Stele vernacular houses in Lexington.
Other features include deer brackets at the overhanging second stor•7 on the
-ight hand side. The house was built, the newspaper tells us, bu Abram_+da _
vashburn, one of Lexington's most prominent local contractors, veru probably on
speculation. A house of nearly identical form was built by- Washburn at
south corner of Bloomfield Street and Highland Avenue.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community,)
In 1.890 Allston_ !onroe Redman, who worked in Boston, moved to this
house with his far.ily. A diary kept by his daughter, Edith, during their early
years in Lexington is in the possession of the Lexington Historical Societl .
It is an account of the activities of rliss Redman when she was in her early
twenties, but nukes passing reference to the house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 bN7 the Lexington_ historical Societe, Volume II, P. 556. Boston:
Houghton Iifflin Company, 1913. f r
Lexington -Minute 1-Ian, riay 21, 1886.] ('eb �� I HO
Diary of Edith Dedman. Lexington historical Society archives.
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