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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 0048000247 Boston N. 666
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD Town Lexington
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Place (neighborhood or village)
Address 16 Manley Ct.
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11 Historic Name Leonard Proctor/Freeborn Raymond
House
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Uses: Present Single Family Residential
Original Multi-Family Residential
Date of Construction 1832
Source Deeds
/ Style/Form Federal
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Architect/Builder
Exterior Material:
Foundation Fieldstone
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Wall/Trim Aluminum Siding
Roof Asphalt Shingle
Outbuildings/Secondary Structures
Major Alterations(with dates)
Front and rear porches,triple window(dates unknown)
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�Sf Condition Fair
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Moved ❑ no ® yes Date 1906-1908 (range)
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Acreage 0.2 A.
Setting On a short side street off one with heavy traffic;
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes in an area of 19th-century houses
Organization Lexington Historical Commission
Date (month/year) March 1998
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form.
BUILDING FORM
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ see continuation sheet
Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community.
16 Manley Ct. is one of several Federal houses in Lexington that have been moved from Massachusetts Ave.to a new site; other
examples are at 11 Vine Brook Rd. (MHC#680), 14 Sherman St. (MHC#675),and 137 Grant St. (MHC#678). This house
is rectangular, 2'/z stories, five-by-two bays,and side-gabled with two rear chimneys. It is set on a fieldstone foundation, clad with
aluminum siding, and roofed with asphalt shingles. Additions include an entry porch,a triple window to the north of the main
entry, and an enclosed porch at the rear. The center entrance is flanked by simple pilasters and half-length sidelights with panels
underneath;windows are 6/1 double hung sash.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE ❑see continuation sheet
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 originally on the south side of Massachusetts Ave. in Lexington Center where Decelle's is now located directly
opposite what is now Edison Way. Deed research indicates that this house was built in 1832 by a Lexington physician named
Leonard Proctor, for in October 1831 Proctor bought the lot on which the house was later located and in August 1832 sold half of
the house he had erected on the"building lot"he had purchased the year before. The fact that the house was intended to be a
double one explains its profile,which is unusually deep for a Federal house. In 1836 Proctor,who by then lived in Boston, sold
the other half of the house, and the two halves continued to be owned separately until 1846. Deeds for this period describe the
property line as being along the"back side of the barn,"which was apparently on the east half of the lot, and a"partition"throug
the house and cellar. The property also included a shed, which was apparently shared by both halves. In 1871 the house was
acquired by Freeborn Raymond(1812-1903), a Boston businessman who had been a councilman, assessor, school committeeman,
and commissioner in Boston and who moved to Lexington in 1855 presumably because that year he married Sarah Richardson, the
daughter of Aaron Richardson,who owned property nearby on Massachusetts Ave. (see 11 Vine Brook Rd. [MHC#680] form).
After Raymond's death this house was moved to Manley Ct. sometime between 1906 and 1908, for a 1906 map shows it still on
its original site on Massachusetts Ave. but a 1908 map shows that it was no longer there. Worthen describes it about 1941 as a
double house, but it is now a single-family residence.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES ❑ see continuation sheet
Middlesex Registry of Deeds. Deeds. Cambridge, MA. 316: 392; 316: 393; 349: 266; 361: 6; 494: 505; 1170: 476.
Sanborn Map Company. Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1908. Pl. 4.
Walker, George H. & Co. Atlas of Middlesex County,Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker&Co., 1906. Pl. 36.
Worthen, Edwin B. Notes on buildings burned,torn down, and moved. "Houses"file,Worthen Collection. Cary Library,
Lexington, Mass. #91
❑ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked,you must attach a completed National
Register Criteria Statement form.