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N Draw map showing property's DESCRIPTION:
location in relation to nearest
\ cross streets and other buildings Date 1894
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Indicate north. Source Lexington Minute Pian, Feb. 2, 1894
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Exterior wall fabric Wide Shingle
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Recorded by Audrey R. MacCarey; Anne ady Setting Meriam Hill; at the top of the
western slope of I✓ieriam Hill, overlooking
Organi-Tation Lexington Historical Comm. Lexington center; on street of ample and
primarily late nineteenth century houses.
Date 4-19-76; March, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within community)
Off center front door with square window. Porch from center front wrap around
right side. 3 sided 2 story bay with Peakdroof left front. Right front gable
w/round top attic window. Double window right of front door w/lead clear glass.
2 chimney_-� balanced at peak. Left side deck and balcony off second floor side
and rear.
._ One of the few frankly Shingle Style houses on Meriam Hill, this house is
a balanced composition with three-sided turret to the left of the facade and a
projecting rectangular bay to the right. Dentil courses and modillions at the
eaves are decorative features. Porches on the sides and rear take advantage
of the panoramic view to the west.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (explain the role owners played in local or state history
and how the building relates to the development of the community)
Historic atlases seem to indicate that this property belonged to C.C.
Goodwin until after 1906. However, directories and a long time resident
indicate that the house was built and occupied by Frederick Lincoln Emery,
- a lawyer in Boston. Emery's father, George, an accountant, built a substantial
house on the corner of Meriam and Stetson streets a decade earlier. F.L. Emery
was president of the Field and Garden Club of Lexington and of the Mt. Pleasant
Home for Aged Men and Women in Boston.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, revised and continued to
1912 by the Lexington Historical Society, Volume II, p. 188. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Lexington Minute Man, February 2, 1894.
1898 map
1889 atlas 1906 atlas
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1894 Directory 1899 Directory 1906 Directory
INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 5 STETSON ST.
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 391
BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
According to a brief notice found in the Lexington Minute-man on February 2, 1894, "Mr. Fred L. Emery's new house on
Stetson street is conspicuous from almost any point of view in the town. It has a remarkably fine outlook and is a rare
location in that it is but a few steps from the centre of the town and yet has the advantages of a detached estate without
the usual accompanying disadvantages". An announcement of the wedding of Fred Emery and Grace Harrington
appearing in the Minute-man on June 1, 1894 noted that their new house on Stetson Street had just been completed. Fred
and Grace Emery continued to live here into the 1930s. Grace Emery was a Christian Scientist practioner. Their son
Leland was living here with his wife Lillian in 1942.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,February 2, 1894; June 1, 1894.
Middlesex County Register of Deeds, Cambridge,Mass.
U.S. Census Records, 1900-1930.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
June 2009