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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
wri Lexington
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John Chandler
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Original residential
- DESCRIPTION:
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ite 1758
"116 School Street" article in
Source Lexington Minuteman (n.d.) by Edwin
SKETCH MAP . Worthen?
Show property's location in relation Style Second-period
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric vinyl siding
Indicate north.
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Major alterations (with dates) two-story
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entrance porches on both ends (after 1902) ;
converted to double house
from Lincoln Street at
Moved Cambridge Reservoir Date 1902
Approx. acreage 14101 ft.2
Recorded by Nance S. Seasholes Setting Near busy intersection (Five
Organization Lexington Historical Commission Forks) and 1960s and 1970s housing.
Date March, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
Although this house has lost all its original exterior finishes, its
five-bay wide, two-bay deep Georgian profile is still clearly recognizable.
The fieldstone foundation is consistent with the date it was moved to this
site.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
According to the records of Edwin B. Worthen, the former Lexington
historian, this house was built in 1758 by John Chandler. It stood on Lincoln
Street near the Lincoln line and may be the house labeled "D. Chandler" on the
1830 map. In 1334 the Chandlers sold the house and it subsequently had many
owners, among them Nathaniel Jewett in 1852, Edwin W. Baxter in 1876, and
Joseph Evans in 1889. In 1901 the house was "taken over" (Worthen doesn't say
by whom) as part of the Cambridge Water Basin that had just been built, and in
1902 was bought by Stephen Brouahall, a blacksmith, and moved to its present
location. The 1906 map shows 24ichael F. Scannell, another blacksmith, as the
owner, but the 1906 Directory indicates that Scannell lived in East Lexington
and that Broughall still lived in this house on School Street.
At some point in its history the house was converted to a two-family;
the two-story entrance porches on either end have almost certainly been added
since the move.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
"116 School Street." Lexington Minuteman (n.d.) , 'by Edwin B. Worthen?
1830 map
1852 map
1876 map
1889 map
1906 map
1906 Directory
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