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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION North
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 6-8 Forest Court
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Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
Date of Construction: c.1910
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Architect/Builder: unknown
Exterior Material:
Foundation: rubble
Wall/Trim: vinyl siding
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Roof: asphalt shingles
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Condition: fair(due to siding)
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3 Acreage: 0.21 acre
69. Y. Setting: small residential court off Forest Street
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Recorded by: Lisa Mausolf
Organization: Lexington Historical Commission
Date(month/year): January 2010
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6-8 Forest Court
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.
An interesting variation on the two-family form, 6-8 Forest Court is a two-story,hip-roofed structure with a two-bay wide gable
projecting from the center of the long fagade. Single-story entrance porches are located on either side of the front gable,
supported by Doric columns resting on low walls. The building is sheathed in vinyl siding and rests on a rubble foundation. The
predominant window is an original 2/1 wooden sash set into a molded surround. They are used individually and in pairs.
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.
This two-family dwelling had not yet been constructed at the time of the 1908 Sanborn map but was in place by 1918. The
original owner is not known. Like the structure at 5-7 Forest Street, it may have been erected by Hammon Reed(d.1911), a
prominent local resident who resided at 87 Waltham Street and earned his living in real estate. The property was sold by his son,
William W. Reed,to Clifford Currier in 1922. Currier lived at 5-7 Forest Street and retained ownership of that building but sold
this building to George Ross the same year(Book 4558,Page 22). In 1920 the two units were rented to Frank Fowler, a
traveling salesman and Robert Sturtevant, an insurance broker.
In 1924 the building was sold by George Ross to Grace Longland,wife of John Longland, a salesman. The couple occupied one
unit while renting the other. John Longland sold the property to John and Mary Morrow in 1945 and it was sold by John
Morrow to the present owner in 1975.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913.
Middlesex County Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
Sanborn Insurance Maps.
U.S. Census, 1910-1930.
1906 map.
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