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Show property's location in relation Style shingle style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect Abram C. Washburn, builder
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric shingles
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Approx. acreage .2 A. (8059 ft.2)
Recorded by Anne Grady Setting Residential street of houses
Organization Lexington Historical Commission slightly more modest than those on the
Date March, 1984 rest of Meriam Hill.
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ARCHITE("TURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This building and two similar cottages on Glen Road are some of the few
Shingle Style houses on Meriam Hill, an area of predominantly Queen Anne and
Colonial Revival style structures. Notable features are the gambrel roof
extendinu down over the second level, the porch with simple brackets, shingled
brackets at the overhanging ends, and leaded glass sidelights at the doorway.
A nearly identical building found on Forest Street, second from the corner of
Clarke Street, may have been built by the same builder/speculator.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
One of at least four houses built speculatively in the Upland Road area
by Abr,m C. t°]ashburn, Lexington's most prolific late nineteenth and early
twentieth century builder (see 4 Glen Road form for more information on
Washburn) . The house was bought from Washburn by Fred and Alice Cloyes. Mr.
Cloyes was a salesman.
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. 116. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
1898 map
1906 atlas
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INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Town Property Address
LEXINGTON 6 UPLAND ROAD
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No.
MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD 400
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
The design of this house is nearly identical to the dwelling at 25 Forest Street(#437).
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
On April 7, 1906 the Lexington Minute-man reported that A.C. Washburn had sold a house on Upland Road,across from
Glen Road,to Mr. Fred D. Cloyes. Fred Cloyes had married Alice Ballard in June 1903.
Fred's widow, Alice Cloyes, was still living at 6 Upland Road as late as 1942. Mrs. Cloyes' brother, John F. Ballard,
lived at 12 Glen Road(see#404).
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington. Cambridge: The Riverside Press Co., 1913, vol. 2, p. 116.
Lexington Directories,various dates.
Lexington Minute-Man,April 7, 1906.
Supplement prepared by:
Lisa Mausolf
March 2009