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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
` 17II Lexington
cress 52 Pleasant Street
;toric Name Sidney Myron Lawrence
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e: Present
residence
Original residence and dairy farm
DESCRIPTION:
to between 1889 and 1894
Source directory, map research
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Shinglet-1-Ire/Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried shingles,
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric aluminum siding
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Date
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Approx. acreage 11390 f't.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Adjacent to Pleasant Brook
Organization Lexington Historical Commission development of contemporary houses on
Date April, 1984 residential street; houses otherwise of
mixed building date.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This simple, side-hall building retains diamond-pattern shingles in the
gables and in the soffits above the bay window, even though the rest of the
building has been sided with aluminum. This building type is found all over
Lexington, but this is the only example in the immediate area.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the de lopment 6f the community.)
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The house was built by Sidney Myron Lawrence, t e grandson of Phineas
Lawrence who built the farmhouse at 3 Peacock Farm Road, and the son of Sidney
whose farm was south of there in the area now covered by Route 2. All three
were dairy farmers who helped to make Lexington one of the largest producers
of milk in the Commonwealth in the nineteenth century.
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. 357. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
"The Milk Business and Milk Men of Earlier Days. " Proceedings of the Lexington
Historical Society, Volume II, pp. 187-196. Lexington: Lexington Histori-
cal Society, 1900.
1830 map
1853 map
1875 atlas 1887 Directory
1889 atlas 1894 Directory
1898 atlas 1899 Directory
1906 atlas 1906 Directory
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