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SKETCH MAP
Draw map showing property's DESCRIPTION:
location in relation to nearest
cross streets and other buildings Date between 1894 and 1898
or geographical features.
Indicate north. Source directory and map research
vStyle Col. Revival (Queen Anne elements)
Architect W j lard ere ri
Exterior wall fabricwhite clapboards
Outbuildings 3-car garage
Major alterations (with dates)
ED&Ewoov ROAD
New entrance (1955)
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Moved Date
a Approx. acreage .6 (25818'
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Off Hancock Street where ground
Organization Lexington Historical Comm. begins to rise toward Granny Hill; amid
Date March, 1984 residences of mixed date.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within community)
This house, built by the eldest son of a successful insurance agent on
family land, is suitably ample. Prominent features are the entrance portico
with paired Ionic columns, bell cast roof and an unusual dormer with polygonal
peaked roof and angled window arrangement which conveys the sense almost of a
turret emerging through the roof.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history
and how the building relates to the development of the community)
Edgewood Road was laid out before 1898 by the Benjamin F. Brown family
extending across their property from Hancock to Meriam streets in a gentle bow.
Benjamin F. Brown had a successful insurance agency in Charlestown and had
moved to Lexington in 1876. Franklin D. Brown (b. 1860) , the eldest son of
his four sons, joined him in the business. F.D. Brown was the first to build
on the new street. In all three more houses were built on or adjacent to the
street by members of the Brown family. The houses, including a second one for
Frank D. Brown (at 28 Meriam Street) built in 1906, were designed by B.F.
Brown's youngest son Willard.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexinqton, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 71. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Personal communication from Sarah Emily Brown Shoenhut.
1889 atlas
1894 Directory 20M-2/80
1898 map