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FORM B — BUILDING
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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
294 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02108
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Original shoemaker's shop
DESCRIPTION:
te c. 1800?
Source Edwin Worthen to Eugene Viano
SKETCH MAP
Show property' s location in relation Style
to nearest cross streets and/or
geographical features. Indicate Architect
all buildings between inventoried
property and nearest intersection. Exterior wall fabric clapboard
Indicate north.
Outbuildings
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from apx. 1690
Moved Massachusetts AvenueDate after 1906
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Approx. acreage 0.1 acre
Recorded by Nancy S. Seasholes Setting On busy street close to other
Organization Lexington Historical Commission modest nineteenth century houses.
Date April, 1984
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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (Describe important architectural features and
evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community.)
This house, three bays long, two wide, with a narrow center brick chimney,
a fieldstone foundation, and a door hood supported by scrolled brackets, is
similar to many of the late nineteenth century houses in the Woburn Street area.
In this case, however, the house may have been built in the early nineteenth-
century
ineteenthcentury as a shoemaker's shop and remodeled into a house; it was moved to this
location from elsewhere in Lexington.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Explain the role owners played in local or state
history and how the building relates to the development of the community.)
This house was originally on Massachusetts Avenue on the lot where
Decelle's is located today. The property was owned in the eighteenth century
by Jonathan Smith whose son-in-law, Joshua Russell, built a house on it in 1792.
Russell was a shoemaker and also had a shoemaker's shop near the house. About
- 1855 the property was acquired by Freeborn F. Raymond and, according to the
former archivist of the Lexington Historical Society, at that time contained
another house near the "Russell" house; this second house may have been the
original shop remodeled into a residence (Edwin Worthen to Eugene J:: Viano,
February 7, 19411 . The "Russell" house was occupied c. 1892 by Dr. Henry C.
Valentine and owned at first by his father-in-law Warren Sherburne, but the
adjoining house, the former shoemaker's shop, seems to have continued to have
been owned by Raymond. It was moved to Manley Court sometime probably between
1906 and 1908, for the 1906 map shows an empty lot on the corner of. Manley
Court and Woburn Street and in the 1908 atlas the house on the Massachusetts
Avenue lot has a different configuration from the one there previously.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES (name of publication, author, date and publisher)
Edwin Worthen to Eugene J. Viano, February 7, 1941. Letter on file in the
Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.
1876 map
1889 map
1898 map
1906 map
1908 Sanborn atlas
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