HomeMy WebLinkAboutindependence-avenue_0009 FORM B - BUILDING AREA FORM N0.
519
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
n Lexington
`` _ <` ress 9 Independence Avenue
toric Name John S. Brown House
TA - -- ---
-® -
go -10 "s Present residential
Original
j'
residential
e c. 1830
�ource sign on house
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Federal
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
O ❑
itiaE
4VEMajor alterations (with dates)
e�
•
❑ ❑
Moved Date
Approx. acreage 24.4.80 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential side street; houses
Organization Lexington Historical Commission mostly of mid-nineteenth century
Date April, 1984 construction date.
(Staple additional sheets here)
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This is a well preserved example of the house type built so frequently in
East Lexington in the first third of the nineteenth century: five bays wide,
one room deep, with rear chimneys. Finishes of this house are simple. The
doorway is of unusual design; both pilaster strips and the lintel board have
panels which are curved at the end.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The house was built by John Sullivan Brown (b. 1806) , grandson of Francis
Brown who fought as a Minute Man on April 19, 1775 and who kept a tavern at 620
Massachusetts Avenue in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Between 1875 and 1899 the house was owned by John L. Holbrook, a carpenter
at-he car shops in East Cambridge.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 68. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
1830 map
1853 map
1875 atlas
1889 atlas
1898 atlas
1906 atlas
1887 Directory 1899 Directory
1894 Directory 1906 Directory
10M - 7/f