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FORM B - BUILDING H 403
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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between 1889 and 1898
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Approx. acreage .2 A. (9880 ft.2)
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street of late
Organization Lexington Historical Commission nineteenth century houses; slightly more
Date March, 1984 modest in scale than those on the rest
of Meriam Hill.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is a modest cottage of a style less frequently found on Meriam Hill
than Queen Anne or Colonial Revival. Notable features are the gambrel roof
extending down over the second floor, the recessed entry, and the shed dormer
with lateral shingled brackets.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
`�'G house and the one at 6 Glen Roa �Tere n�,.nP�_;r i ani r�;i n
et___b__ -`, worked Glen Road was one of the last streets to be
developed on Meriam Hill. Only on this street and Upland Road adjacent were
some of the houses built speculatively.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
1898 map
1906 atlas
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 8 GLEN ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 403
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This house was constructed before 1899 when it was occupied by Charles I. Wheeler,who sold awnings in Boston. On
August 18, 1906 the Lexington Minute-man reported that:
Mrs. Sarah P. McLean Greene has recently purchased the Chas.1. Wheeler house on Glen road,vacated a short
time ago by Chas. H. Miles, superintendent of the Lexington Gas and Elec. Lt. Co. It is a picturesque Dutch
colonial house nestling amid some dwarf pines. It is hardly necessary to recall that Mrs. Greene is the author of
"Cape Cod Folks",that humorous photographic portrayal of life and characteristics of the cape. The book has
recently been dramatized and is to be brought out on the stage of the Boston Theatre,beginning with the week of
Monday,Aug. 27th,when the regular fall season at this theatre opens...Mrs. Greene has published a number of
novels since this her first one,which made a sensation and established her literary prestige. She averages about a
book a year, and a novel is now in the hands of her publishers and will be issued to the public before too long.
Mrs. Greene is the sister of the late Mrs. Wm.H. Greeley of Lexington, and her brother is ex-Gov. McLean of
Connecticut.
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene(1856-1935)was born in Simsbury, Connecticut and studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary for
two years before leaving to teach on the Cape. Her experiences there inspired her first book Cape Cod Folks(1881). In
addition to Cape Cod Folks,her works include Towhead(1883),Last Chance Junction (1889), The Moral Imbeciles
(1898), Vestry of the Basins(1900), Winslow Plain (1902),Flood Tide(1902) and Power Lot(1906). Her book Cape
Cod Folks was the basis of a silent movie, Women Who Give,produced in 1924 by Louis B. Mayer. In 1887 she had
married Franklin Greene who died in 1890. Mrs. Greene lived at 8 Glen Road until her death in 1935.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,August 18, 1906.
Representative Women of New England. Compiled by Mary A. Stimpson,Martha Seavey Hoyt. New England Historical
Pub. Co., 1904,pp. 262-264.
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Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009