HomeMy WebLinkAboutforest-street_0024 FORM B - BUILDING In A ea no. Form no.
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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ay in Lexington
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1847
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4. Map. Draw sketch of building location Architect
in relation to nearest cross streets and
other buildings. Indicate north. Exterior wall fabric White aluminum clapboards
_ Outbuildings (describe)
Other features Brick foundation. Cross gable
roof, 2 bar windows on each side. (one has
angled side)
A' Alteredyes Date
S� Moved from Waltham Stree•tDate 1067
5. Lot size:
One acre or less 7000 ft fiver one acre
Approximate frontage 58'
'Ir Approximate distance of building from street
25'
Anne Grady, Nancy S. seasholes
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE 6. Recorded by Elizabeth C. Whitman
USGS Quadrant
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
MHC Photo no. April, ]984
Date April 29, 1976
(over)
5M-2-75-R061465
7. Original owner (if known) Horace B. Davis
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 Political Transportation
9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above)
Front porch 2 bays wide, lattice below, now has built up sides of rail inclapboard
This house was built in 1847 for Horace B. Davis, later an assessor for the
fourteen ,years from 1876 to 1889. It originally stood on Waltham Street on the
lot immediately to the north of the present No. 82. In 1887, however, Davis sold
the house to Hammon Reed, who owned the house still across Waltham Street at No. 87.
Reed moved this house to its present location on Forest Street and built a new one
for his new son-in-law, Fred K. Brown, on the vacated lot on Waltham Street. By
1889 this house was apparently owned by a Miss Sarah Chandler and by 1906 by Mrs.
Alice C. Reed, a dressmaker.
10. Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records,
early maps, etc.)
Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Vol. II (Boston: Houghton Mif-
flin Co. , 1911 , PP• 568-69.
1889 map
,1898 map
1906 map
1887 Directory
1906 Directory