HomeMy WebLinkAboutpercy-road_0024 AREA FORM NO.
FORM B - BUILDING 0 495
iASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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Lexington
'ess 24 Percy Road
T - otic Name William E. Page House
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a Present residential
Original residential
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1896
-ource Lexington Minute Man, June 14, 1895
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Show property's location in relation Style shingle style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
Indicate north.
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Approx. acreage 1355 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Munroe Hill; residential street
Organization Lexington Historical Commission developed primarily in the late nineteenth
Date March, 1984 century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
one of several substantial Shingle Style houses on Munroe Hill, this
is an L-shaped house with steel dormered roof and large polygonal turret.
The shape of the turret is echoed in the polygonal porch at the right hand
end of the facade and in the three-sided enclosed entry porch.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The building was owned in 1906 by Jane N. Page.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Lexington Minute Man, June 14, 1895.
1906 atlas
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 24 PERCY ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 495
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This house was built for William E. Page about 1895. The Lexington Minute-Man of June 14, 1895 reports that:
A gentleman by the name of Page has purchased a house lot next to the promises occupied by Mr. Edwin Read on
Mt. Vermon Street, on which he proposes to build.
Page apparently only occupied the house for a short time. He is listed in the 1899 and 1902 directories but is gone by
1906. There also does not appear to be a listing for Page at the time of the 1900 Census.
On November 16, 1901,the Minute-Man reported that the"W.E.Page house on Mt. Vernon has been leased to the
Whitneys of Brookline,the family including Mrs. Whitney,Miss Whitney and Mrs. Hay. It was Mrs. Hay's husband ,
who was instantly killed in the railroad accident on one of the cape trains last summer, only a month after the couple were
married".
Beginning about 1910,the house at 24 Percy Road was occupied for many years by Reuben B. Sherburne, son of Warren
Sherburne who built and lived at 11 Percy Road. Reuben's two brothers also lived in the neighborhood—F.F. Sherburne
at 1508 Massachusetts Avenue and Warren R. Sherburne at 15 Percy Road. Reuben Sherburne worked in insurance and
real estate in Boston. His widow was still living here in 1942.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,June 14, 1895,Nov. 16, 1901.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
1898 & 1906 Atlas.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
January 2009