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4. Map. Draw sketch of building location Architect Willard Brown?
in relation to nearest cross streets and
other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric Grey aluminum clapboards
2 car arae with shed
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Other features Fieldstone foundation 6 brick
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Altered See back Date
Moved Date
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5. Lot size:
20716 ft.2
Fav One acre or less Over one acre
Approximate frontage 90'
Approximate distance of building from street
12'
Anne Grady,
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE 6. Recorded by Elizabeth C. Whitman
USGS Quadrant
Organization
MHC Photo no. April, 1984
Date May 20, 1976
(over)
5M-2-75-R061465
7. Original owner (if known)
Original use
Subsequent uses (if any) and dates
8. Themes (check as many as applicable)
Aboriginal Conservation Recreation
Agricultural Education Religion
Architectural x Exploration/ Science/
The Arts settlement invention
Commerce Industry Social/
Communication Military humanitarian
Community development x Political Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
Door on right, Front porch enclosed. Lattice in arch around door. Bay window
on left side. Roof comes to top of first floor and overhangs. 2 dormers on
front with large gables connected as a shed dormer in center. This appears
added. In rear back porch(es)' with room above. (Room appears added) offset
of second floor over first chimney at center behind ridge.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
This building postdates all but one of its immediate neighbors on Forest
Street by a quarter of a century or more. Its building date just before 1906
makes it a very early example of its Dutch Colonidl,, style. The fact that the
doorway is very similar to the doorway which Willard Brown designed for his
own house at 20 Meriam Street in 1906 leads to the suspicion that Brown had a
hand in the design of this house. Also of interest is the fact that a nearly
identical house exists at 6 Middlebury Road and a similar one is found on
Audubon Road,
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house was owned by Edward Haven Goodnough, a manager in Boston in
1906. Very likely he built the house shortly before that for, although born
in New Jersey, he had moved to Lexington by the time his child was born in
1905.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
early maps, etc.)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 244. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
1906 atlas
2906 Directory.
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 6 FOREST STREET
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 429
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
On September 19, 1908 the Lexington Minute-man reported that Frank Damon,the principal of Lexington High School
had purchased the Edward H. Goodnough House on Forest Street. (The 1908 directory reports that Goodnough had
moved to New York.) Damon also does not seem to have occupied the house for long. By 1913 it was occupied by
Daniel Lewis, an accountant who worked in Boston. Lewis was still living here in 1932.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man, Sept. 19, 1908.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009