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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 71/218 North 1588
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Town: Lexington
Place: (neighborhood or village)
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Address: 6 Linmoor Terrace
Historic Name: Edward H. Nowers House
Uses: Present: residential
Original: residential
a Date of Construction: 1909
f Source: Minute-man, July 24, 1909
Style/Form: Colonial Revival/Craftsman
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INVENTORY FORM B CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON 6 Linmoor Terrace
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD,BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
1588
Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
If checked,you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
Setback on a hill above North Hancock Street,what is now known as 6 Linmoor Terrace is a 2 %2-story,hip-roofed dwelling
constructed in the early years of the 20th century and displaying elements of both the Craftsman and Colonial Revival styles.
The house is rectangular in plan and oriented with its broad fagade facing south and its end to Linmoor Terrace. It rests on a
mortared fieldstone foundation and the same stone forms a base for the full-width,three-bay wide front porch that continues
around part of the west elevation. The porch is supported by pairs of Doric columns which rest on stone posts with sets of three
at the front corners of the porch. The house is outlined by simple cornerboards and the eaves of the hip roof are projecting and
boxed. Hip dormers punctuate the roof in addition to a fieldstone chimney on the west slope. Windows contain a mix of
individual and paired openings which contain replacement 1/1 sash. Centered on the second floor of the fagade is a projecting
tripartite window.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local(or state)history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)the
owners/occupants played within the community.
This house was constructed in the early 20th century and originally had a 74 North Hancock Street address. (Linmoor Terrace
was created in the 1950s).
The first owner appears to have been Edward H.Nowers(b.1867)who came to Lexington in 1907. According to deeds, William
R. Greeley sold this land to Effie Nowers,wife of Edward in August 1909 (Book 3458,Page 471). Edward was treasurer of a
marine works and Effie was a Sunday School superintendent. On July 24, 1909 the Minute-man reported that"Edward H.
Nowers is to build a house in North Lexington for a home for his family". By 1920 the house was owned and occupied by
Clarence and Abbie Fuller. He was employed as the manager of a cocoa company.
Later owners included Margaret Rice and the Kuehnle family who owned the property from 1965 until 1996.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
1906 map
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913.
Lexington Minute-man,July 24, 1909.
Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, Cambridge,MA
Town Directories
U.S. Census,various years.
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