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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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n a Lexin ton
- ress 28 Sherman Street
toric Name C.G. Fletcher Cottage
�'- Present residential
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i _ Original residential
ASCRIPTION:
c. 1890
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SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style Queen 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
2
Major alterations (with dates)
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Moved Date
� EET Approx. acreage 11047 ft.'
Recorded byknne Grady Setting Residential street of relatively
Organization Lexington HiEtorica.l Commission modest houses built at the turn of the
Date April 198'L twentieth century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This unusual cottage with L-shaped plan and entrance on a diagonal at the
junction of the two legs of the L, is one of the most charmingly embellished
late nineteenth century buildings in Lexington. The two-story bay window on
the Sherman Street side is the focus of decoration where diagonal boarded
panels, brackets with rope molded trim, and gable with stickwork are found.
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 Charles G. Fletcher, a horse dealer, who before
1889 subdivided his property along the current Fletcher Street, Sheridan Street
and Sherman Street, and began to build rental housing. By 1898 he had built 11
houses and still owned all but one of them. Although not documented, Flet4;her
may have seen the income opportunity of providing housing for the workers at
George B. Grant's Lexington Gear Works (now the Jefferson Union Company) further
east on Fletcher Street.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of pu ,.'
1875 atlas
1889 atlas --—
1898 atlas ' - -
1906 atlas
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