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Show property's location in relation Style Colonial Revival
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
Moved Date
Approx. acreage 9896 ft.2
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Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Munroe Hill; residential street
Organization Lexington Historical Commission developed primarily at the turn of the
Date March, 1984 twentieth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This large house with L-shaped plan is typical of the substantial houses
being built on Munroe Hill at the turn of the twentieth century. The house is
fairly accurate to its colonial sources except in the shed dormers.
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 Charles Follen Garrison, an electrical engineer
in Boston. The son of abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles was named
for Charles Follen, the minister of the East Lexington Church who like Charles'
father spoke out against slavery and who died in 1840. Two brothers of
Charles had houses on Munroe Hill by the early twentieth century.
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. 237. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
1906 atlas
1899 Directory
1906 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 23 ELIOT ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 505
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Additional information confirms that this house was constructed in 1899 for Charles Follen Garrison(b. 1868)and his
wife Margaret on land purchased from the Lexington Land Company. A brief mention in the Lexington Minute-Man on
February 10, 1899 noted that two or three houses were to be built in the Mt. Vernon district in the spring including
houses for Dr. Chas. P. Briggs(see 27 Eliot Road)and Charles Garrison. The Garrisons moved out of town prior to
1910. Stanley Eldridge, a wholesale grocer in Boston,was living here by 1915 and was still here in 1932.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,Feb. 10, 1899.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds,Cambridge,Mass.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
January 2009