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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET TOWN ADDRESS
LEXINGTON 29 HAYES AVE.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1066
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION continued
The house was designed by Willard D. Brown, architect of Lexington, who also designed the house next door at 31 Hayes
Ave.
The Nichols House shares design features with the houses Brown designed at 5 Goodwin Rd. and 11 Bennington Rd. in
Lexington.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE continued
According to Sarah Emily Brown Schoenhut, Willard Brown's daughter, Howard Ostrom Nichols and his brother, Ernest
Ostrom Nichols, built houses on adjacent lots at 29 and 31 Hayes Avenue respectively. Unlike the Doe Brothers, who built
houses at 18 and 20 Adams St. that were similar, the Nichols brothers specified to architect Willard Brown that their
houses should not be similar in design.
REFERENCES continued
Sarah Emily Brown Schoenhut. Letter to Anne Grady, March 27, 1984.
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