HomeMy WebLinkAboutforest-street_0003 AREA FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING f i 427
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
' 'n Lexington
Tress 3 Forest Street
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_ )ESCRIPTION:
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Source map research
Style Mansard
Architect
Exterior wall fabric aluminum siding
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates) addition
f to left side (date unknown)
Moved Date
Approx. acreage 4397 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady, Nancv S. Seasholes Setting In a small group of Mansard
Organization Lexington. Historical Commission cottages at the south end of Forest Street.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This Mansard cottage has lost its original finishes and had its first
floor window on the facade changed, but it is still an important component of
the streetscape which is dominated on this end of Forest Street by a grouping
of houses of similar design.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
- Map research indicates this house may have been built as a rental
property and rented for some time thereafter: the owner in 1876 apparently
lived in the house at 8-10-12 Forest; and the owner in 1889 was George H.
Jackson, one of the major property owners in this section of town. In 1906
the owner was Arthur A. Marshall, an embalmer whose place of work was not
in this house.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1876 map
1889 map
1906 map
1906 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 3 FOREST STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 427
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
On October 15, 1904 the Lexington Minute-man reported that:
Mr. Arthur A. Marshall has recently purchased of Mr. Geo. F. Jackson, a cottage house on Forest Street,which
he intends to occupy.
A.A. Marshall lived here for a few years and then the house was occupied by his son,Ralph, until about 1920.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913,vol. 2, p. 20.
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man, October 15, 1904.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
April 2009