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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Lexington
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Cic Name C.C. Goodwin House
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Residence
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nX ship:[ Private individual
'X Private organization
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z, £` 3riginal owner
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N location in relation to nearest
cross streets and other buildings Date c 1880
or geographical. features.
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O Style mansard
Architect
Exterior wall fabric white clapboard/shingle
FA gray shutters
Outbuildings
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Major alterations (with dates) doorway
l (recent addition)
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Moved Date
OApprox. acreage .5 (20980')
Recorded by Audrey R. MacCarey; Anne Grady Setting Meriam Hill ; residential street
Organization Lexington Historical Comm. developed primarily in the late nineteenth
Date 4-19-76 ; March, 1984 century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within community)
Set on side of hill - 2 stories left, 3 stories right and back - double front
door with light, pedimented with fluted flat columns, long narrow double windows
each side front door 6/6 panes,
one-story bay window
at right side on open porch with lower level porch under - 1 chimney right rear
roof, left outside ch;:--n,-iey - porch extends across back at lst floor level.
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history
and how the building relates to the development of the community)
This is the only house left in Lexington which is associated with
Charles Clinton Goodwin (1839-1905) , a prominent late nineteenth century
resident, although Goodwin Road bears the family name. Goodwin was a
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"wholesale druggist, an officer in various druggist s'Ma .- a member of a
church choir for 47 years" (Hudson, II, p. 245) . Goodwin moved to Lexington
permanently in 1863 and in 1883 built a large estate north of Meriam Street
(now demolished) . He was a member of the first board of trustees of the
Lexington Savings Bank. When between 1875 and 1889 or for whom Goodwin
built this house has not been determined.
EIBLIOGRAFHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, vol. II (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co. , 1913,) .
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Community: Form No:
MA.SSIXMSETTS HISTORICAL CU4IISSION Lexington 390
Office of the Secretary, Boston
Property Name: 3 Stetson Street
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
The only Mansard Style house on Meriam Hill, this house must have been
one of the first houses to be constructed on upper Meriam Hill. A symmetrical
composition with elongated windows and dormers with broadly projecting eaves
and returns, this house preserves original finishes except at the entry where
a pediment doorway is a recent addition.
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