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20/142A Boston
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
Photograph East Lexington
Address: 11 Drew Avenue
Historic Name: Albert& Martha Moore House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Elm
R Date of Construction: 1917
Source: directories
Style/Form: Colonial Revival
Architect/Builder: unknown
'`.. Exterior Material:
ti Foundation: stone
Wall/Trim: wood shingles/wood
Topographic or Assessor's Map Roof: asphalt shingles
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures:
none
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/ 0i Major Alterations(with dates):
r
4 606 date?— replacement windows and shutters
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Y4424 -.� Condition: good
Moved: no x yes Date
Acreage: 0.11 acre
' ,90 Setting: mixed 20th c. residential neighborhood
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600
Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): July 2008
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 11 DREW AVENUE
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Set on a hill above the road, 11 Drew Avenue is a 1 %2-story, gambrel fronted structure which rests on a stone foundation and is
clad in wood shingles. Half the fagade is taken by a three-sided bay window while the remainder is sheltered by a single-story,
flat-roofed porch which shelters an offcenter entrance and an adjacent elevated, fixed Queen Anne-style window. The porch in
supported by plain posts with a set of wooden steps that connect with a concrete flight of stairs leading down to street level. The
remaining windows on the structure contain double-hung 1/1 replacement sash and are flanked by board shutters.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the
owners/occupants played within the community.
Archival research suggests that this house was constructed about 1917. The land was originally lotted in 1909 as part of a
subdivision known as Massachusetts Avenue Terrace, owned by Jacob W. Wilbur of Brookline. In July 1912 Wilbur sold the
land on which the house sits (lots 61 and 62)to Martha J. Moore,wife of Albert(Book 3710, Page 333). The deed included
several restrictions: that no house shall be built costing less than$800 and that no shanty,but or box be erected on the property
without the permission of the grantor. According to the 1913 directory Albert Moore was then living on Cliffe Avenue; there is
no listing for Moore in the 1915 directory. The first known listing for the property appears in the 1918 directory and indicates
that Albert Moore, a carpenter by trade,was living on Drew Avenue in East Lexington. According to the 1920 Census,Albert
Moore was then 56 years old and was born in Canada,immigrating to the US in 1884. His occupation is listed as house
carpenter and he lived here with his wife Martha, daughter and son. In 1940 Albert and Martha Moore sold the property(lots
59-64)to Robert and Rachel Findlay. Mrs. Findlay continued to live here until 1968 when she sold to Richard Foley. The
property has had at least six owners since that time.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,MA
Town directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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