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FORM B - BUILDING AREAFORM N0.o { 499
LkSSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
z94 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
Lexington
' 'ess 45 Percy Road
5z �" otic Name Albin Rufus Reed House
Present residential
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SCRIPTION:
- 1894
Source Hudson, II, p. 573
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style oueen Anne
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
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Major alterations (with dates)
Moved Date
\ Approx. acreage 15500 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Munroe Hill; residential street
Organization Lexington Historical Commission developed primarily in the 1890s.
Date March, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
One of the substantial houses built on Munroe Hill in the 1890s, this
house is more frankly Queen Anne (without Shingle Style elements) than many
of the others. Important features of the design include bay windows, a broad
porch with fluted square columns, a balustrade with decorative urns above
the porch, and a central gable with round-headed window trimmed with a
distinctive design of radiating T-shaped ornaments.
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 Albin Rufus Reed, a vocal music teacher in
Boston, who first occupied it in June of 1894.
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. 573. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
1894 Directory
1906 Directory
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 45 PERCY ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 499
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
The Reed family occupied this house until 1902 when they moved into a new home at 50 Percy Road(4500). Albin
Rufus Reed died on Dec. 24, 1904.
It appears that the house was occupied by William Lloyd Garrison and his wife Ellen for several years. The house at 45
Percy Road was later occupied by Hugh McLellan, a lawyer, from about 1915 to at least 1942.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various years.
U.S. Census,various dates.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009