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FORM B - BUILDING 421 j
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
n Lexington
cess 18 Stratham Road
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- � % � - Present residential
Original residential
ESCRIPTION:
ounce Lexington Minute Paan, April 2, 1886
SKETCH MAP
Show property's location in relation Style Shingle style/Queen Anne
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and neare intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboards, shingles
Indicate north. 13
Outbuildings garage
Major alterations (with dates)
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Approx. acreage 30992 ft.2
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting A prominent site on the southern
Organization Lexington Historical Commission slope of Robinson Hill overlooking the
Date April, 1984 town center.
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house is similar to many late-nineteenth century houses in Lexington.
Its vernacular profile has been dressed up with a hexagonal tower at the left
front corner, a rectangular bay window, patera trim on the eave fascia, and a
porch with turned posts.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the commmity.)
The local newspaper noted in April, 1886, that Mr. Leonard E. Bennink had
rented the new house just completed by George W. Robinson. Mr. Bennink, a dry
goods dealer in Boston, was the leader in the campaign to get Lexington to
adopt "modern business methods in its municipal affairs" (Worthen 1946:95) ,
which was first successful when in 1893 the town established a finance committee.
By 1895 Bennink had purchased an estate on Loring Hill and by 1913 he had moved
to Lawrence.
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 Society, Volume II, p. 29. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.
Worthen, Edwin B. A Calendar History of Lexington, Massachusetts 1620-1946,
p. 95. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Savings Bank, 1946.
Worthen, Edwin B. "George Slept -- Where?" Lexington Minute Man, November 13,
1969.
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