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DESCRIPTION:
Draw map showing property's
location in relation to nearest
cross streets and other buildings Date 1894
or geographical features.
Indicate north. ` Source Lexington binute Tian, Mar. 16, 189
v Style Colonial Revival/Queen Anne
Architect John May of Magnolia \ 6L4ddP✓
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Exterior wall fabric shingles
Outbuildings garage
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(1946) ; piazza roofed over (1954)
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Approx. acreage 0.4 acre (18,6411)
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting A prominent site near the top
Organization Lexington Historical Commission of Meriam Hill on a residential. street
Date March, 1984 developed primarily in the late nineteenth
century.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
one of the ample houses characteristic of eriam Hill, this house with
inforuial plan and picturesque massing is embellished with modillions at the
eaves and an eyebrow window. There is a dentil course on the pedimented
cable on the right side, and one window is finished with a cap which
suggests in minimal terms a broken scroll pediment.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
The marriage in 1894 of the offspring of two prominent families in
Lexington was an event well-chronicled by the Lexington .iinute Pian. Edward
Porter Tierriam was the son of I,latthew H. Merriam whose shoe findings factory
on Oakland Street was "the principal manufacturing establishment in
Lexington" (Hurd, I, n. 631) . Alice Goodwin was the daughter of Charles C.
Goodwin, wholesale druggist in Boston, whose large estate was opposite
Stetson Street on ieriam Street. Evidently the father of the bride built
them. a house. The Lexington Minute Han (March 16, 1894) states, "Architect
and builder John I.ay of agnolia was in Town Tuesday on business relative
to the building of a house on Stetson Road for 1dr. Chas. C. Goodwin. The
contract was given to the DeVeau Bros. " play, the newspaper continues, was
building many houses in the "growing summer resort of :IagnoliaZ, iMassachusettsi"
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 Societe, Volume II, pp. 245, 432. Boston:
Houghton t'ifflin Companv, 1913. rr p
Lexington =`inute flan, march 16, 18941
1889 atlas
1906 atlas
:turd, D. Hamilton, ed., History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol. I, (Phila-
delphia: J,W. Lewis & Co. , 1890
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