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HomeMy WebLinkAboutarea-h merriam_hill Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. 4/11 FORM A - AREA MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Assessor’s Sheets USGS Quad Area Letter Form Numbers in Area 48, 55, 56, 62,63, 64, 65 Boston N H see data sheet Town/City: Lexington Place (neighborhood or village): Merriam Hill Neighborhood Name of Area: Merriam Hill Present Use: Residential Construction Dates or Period: 1737-2014 Overall Condition: Good-excellent Major Intrusions and Alterations: Acreage: Circa 300 acres Recorded by: Anne Andrus Grady Organization: Lexington Historical Commission Date (month/year): June 2014 Locus Map see continuation sheet INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 H See data sheet Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Describe architectural, structural and landscape features and evaluate in terms of other areas within the community. The Merriam Hill Association (MHA), according to its by-laws, includes all the properties encompassed by the Minuteman Bikeway, Hancock Street, Adams Street, East Street and Grant Street as well as the opposite sides of Hancock and Adams Streets and Hancock Avenue and Brigham Road. The area is best known for its assemblage of late 19th and turn-of-the-20th century houses. While much of the southern part of the area was developed during that time, additional construction there and in the northern parts of the area continued through the 20th century and beyond. The following area form is intended to supplement earlier area forms for parts of the Merriam Hill Association area (A Forms: C, G, and H) completed between 1975 and 2000. The fragmented nature of the coverage of the greater Merriam Hill area in these previous area forms led to gaps in the understanding of the development of the area and did not cover all of the historically significant buildings. This area form brings together information on all of the surveyed buildings and landscapes in the area and presents an overview of significant buildings yet to be surveyed. The buildings included in the area covered by the Merriam Hill Association, more than 50 years old, reflect a continuum of architectural styles from the Early Georgian Hancock-Clarke House of 1737 through late 19th century picturesque styles and various iterations of the Colonial Revival of the early 20th century to styles popular in post World War II period. Along Hancock Street, the earliest street in the MHA area to be built up, are some houses in the Greek Revival and Italianate styles dating from the second and third quarters of the 19th century, for example (26 Hancock Street, MHC # 108 and 18 Hancock Street, MHC # 194). The Benjamin Muzzey House (MHC # 679), built in 1835 on Massachusetts Avenue and moved to 14 Glen Road South, is the MHA area's only high style Greek Revival dwelling and one of the few such houses in Lexington. The General Samuel Chandler House at 8 Goodwin Road (NRIND, 1977) is the only survivor of the three grand Italianate or Second Empire mansions that once graced the north side of Hancock Street. More modest versions of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles are found on Hancock Street and in a few other places (7 Adams Street, MHC # 700; 13 Hancock Avenue, MHC #111) and 2-4 Grant Place). The Gothic Revival style is now represented by a single house at 16 Hancock Street (MHC #109) with allusions to designs of Davis and Downing. This house and the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, at 17 Meriam Street (MHC #380) also are the only examples of the Gothic Revival Style in Lexington. Built in 1886 and designed by E. P.A. Newcomb for an Episcopal congregation (the Church of Our Redeemer), the church is a creative INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 2 H See data sheet blend of the Shingle and Gothic Revival styles, and is particularly noteworthy for the wooden tracery surrounding its stained glass windows. The district's only example of the French Second Empire style is the house at 3 Stetson Street (MHC #390), though one other house has an added Mansard roof. The group of five Mansard cottages built by developer John L. Norris between 1870 and 1873 on Hancock Avenue, were noted by William Dean Howells in Three Villages of 1884 as "examples of story and one half, mansard architecture so popular in our wood built suburbs." Many of these cottages, including possibly those on Hancock Avenue, were based on designs in architectural pattern books. A similar Mansard cottage is found at 58 Hancock Street (MHC # 734). Queen Anne is a prevalent style on the south slope of Merriam Hill, which was developed in the last two decades of the 19th century. Many of the houses exhibit asymmetrical elements and massing emphasized by the use of windows, turrets, porches, varied window treatment and textured surfaces. Particularly fine examples of the Queen Anne style include 17 Oakland Street (MHC #372) and 4 Chandler Street (MHC #395). The house at 25 Oakland Street (MHC #377) is an excellent example of the Shingle style while a number of the more modest houses on Upland Road and Glen Road also exhibit elements of that style. Many of the most gracious and exuberant houses on Merriam Hill were designed in a combination of these two styles as in 12 Oakland Street (MHC #369). The houses at 3 Chandler Street (MHC #394) and 29 Oakland Street (MHC #379) can be characterized as English Revival dwellings because of the half timbering in their gables. Several houses constructed in the late 19th century are notable for retaining elaborate and well-preserved carriage houses that complement the design of the main house. These include 20 Oakland Street (MHC #1175) and 29 Oakland Street (MHC #1179). Many of the houses built after the turn of the 20th century are creative blends of the Colonial Revival style with elements of the Queen Anne, Shingle or Craftsman styles. These are among the most interesting buildings in the district (See 8 Adams Street, (MHC # 697; 20 Meriam Street, MHC # 382; 25 Adams Street, MHC # 1019). However, a growing reaction to the excesses of the late nineteenth century picturesque styles found expression in simpler styles that became popular after the turn of the 20th century. A pure version of the Craftsman style is found in the house at 28 Meriam Street (MHC #385). The houses at 9 Glen Road (MHC #1149) and 38 Colony Road (MHC # 1559) are good examples of the emerging Four Square style, while houses that combine Colonial Revival and Four Square elements are found at 10 Berwick Road (MHC # 1035), 50 Hancock Street (MHC # 728), and 28 Woodland Road (1924) (MHC #2169). A modest but well-preserved example of the Bungalow style stands at 10 Oakland Street (MHC #1169). Only one other bungalow is found in the Merriam Hill area, at 47 Hancock Street (MHC #1058). After 1920 Merriam Hill witnessed infill construction on vacant lots as well as the addition of garage structures on older properties. The 1920s and 1930s also saw a return to generally more modest houses. In this era, the north side of Merriam Hill, which had been subdivided in 1903 from the Hayes estate into smaller lots along Colony Road, Woodland Road, York Street, and the northern part of Meriam Street, began to be developed. A different mix of styles from those associated with the previous decades on the Hill prevailed. Most were modest versions of Colonial Revival style. These smaller houses have been targeted as teardowns, so the INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 3 H See data sheet occasional new construction of larger houses in this area of Merriam Hill has been, simply by virtue of the size of the houses, intrusive to the streetscape. By far the most prevalent style built in the 20th century in the Merriam Hill neighborhood is the classic center entrance Colonial. This style had remarkable staying power. The earliest example is a house built in 1912-1913 at 38 Somerset Street (MHC #1125) and the latest is that of 1994, at 144 Grant Street (not on the inventory). A number of center entrance Colonials built in the 1920s and 1930s evince the trend of the time toward greater historical accuracy. [See 8 Oakmount Circle (MHC #1105), 42 Somerset Road (MHC #1130) and 47 Somerset Road (MHC #1133), as well as 11 Edgewood Road (1932) (MHC #2115), 77 Meriam Street (1931) (MHC #2146), 96 Meriam Street (1940) (MHC # 151), 99 Meriam Street (1937) (MHC #2152), 6 Patriots Drive (1938) (MHC #2160), 7 Patriots Drive (1940) (MHC #2161), 38 York Street (1939) (MHC #2175), 39 York Street (1929) (MHC #2176), 43 York Street (1929) (MHC #2177), and 59 York Street (1929) (MHC #2178).] When the center entrance Colonials are added together with the other versions of the Colonial Revival style, i.e. the Dutch Colonial, the Garrison Colonial, the side entrance Colonial and the Cape Cod House, the number of houses in the Colonial Revival style represents more than 120 of the 403 buildings in the MHA district. There are Dutch Colonial Revival houses at 24 Meriam Street (MHC #1159), 3 Oakland Street (MHC #1165), 4 Oakmount Circle (MHC #1102) and 23 Edgewood Road (MHC #1049). Other houses in the Dutch Colonial style are found at 101 Meriam Street (1926) (MHC #2154), 12 Patriots Drive (1926) (MHC #2162), 11 Somerset Road (1928) (MHC #2163), 22 Woodland Road (1920) (MHC #2146) and 6 (1936) (MHC #2109) and 10 Colony Road (1937) (MHC #2110). Among the few Garrison Colonials in the MHA district are the house 41 Woodland Road (1940) (MHC#2172) and the house at 12 Meriam Street (MHC #1153), built on the former Goodwin estate. The latter preserves its original slate roof. The house at 10 Meriam Street (MHC #1152) is a building in the Cape Cod style constructed in the late 1930s on the site of the former Goodwin mansion. The Cape Cod dwelling at 4 Stetson Street (MHC #1182), built in 1939, displays a stone veneered facade and metal casement windows. Fourteen Meriam Street, built in 1947 (MHC #1154) and 31 Meriam Street, built in 1935 (MHC #1162) are Capes inserted among larger, earlier houses on the south side of Merriam Hill. Other houses in the Cape Cod style are found at 30 Edgewood Road (1938) (MHC #2146), 27 Hayes Avenue (1938) (MHC#2138), 2 Patriots Drive (1947) (not on inventory), and 35 Woodland Road (1939) MHC#2171). Tudor Revival houses characterized by areas of half timbering or live edge siding, brick construction and steeply pitched roofs formed part of the housing stock built in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s in the MHA area. Examples include houses at 4 Wadman Circle (MHC # 1138), 17 Goodwin Road (1933) (MHC #2120), 6 York Street (1947) (not on the inventory), 45 Adams Street (1937) (MHC #2105)and 40 Meriam Street (1948) (MHC #2144). INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 4 H See data sheet Scattered construction on vacant lots continued to occur into the 1970s in styles associated with the post war period: Colonials, Capes, and Ranches. Two houses of the mid-century modern style are found at 56 Meriam Street (1956) (MHC #2145) and 10 Oakmount Circle (1964) (MHC #2158), one of the few known "Deck Houses" houses in Lexington designed by the Acorn Deck House Company. As would be expected, a number of houses in the MHA area have been enlarged. Construction techniques used in the MHA area were apparently almost exclusively conventional. The house of Howard and Mabel Winlock of 1913 at 33 York Street (MHC # 389), however, was built of hollow tiles covered with a stucco finish, while the house at 10 Round Hill Road (MHC # 1612), built in 1913, was described as a cement structure with red asbestos-and-cement shingles. The house built in 1920 at 21 Glen Road South (MHC # 1053) is believed to be a prefabricated house from Sears, Roebuck and Co. Many of the more substantial houses on Meriam Hill throughout its history were architect-designed. Lexington's best-known early 20th century architects, Willard D. Brown and William Roger Greeley are represented by a number of houses. Willard Brown's designs are found at 8 Adams Street (MHC #697), 1908; 18 Adams Street (MHC #701), 1903; 20 Adams Street (MHC# 702), 1903; 5 Berwick Road (MHC # 1853), early 1930s; 7 Berwick Road (MHC # 1551), c. 1910; 18 Edgewood Road (MHC # 407), 1894-1898; 27 Edgewood Road (MHC #1050), 1929; 5 Goodwin Road (MHC # 1854), 1921; 29 Hayes Avenue (MHC #1066), 1914; 31 Hayes Avenue MHC # 1855), 1915; 20 Meriam Street (MHC #382), 1906; 28 Meriam Street (MHC #385), 1906; 57 Meriam Street MHC #387), c. 1914; 19 Oakland Street (MHC #373), remodeling of 1906; 4 Oakmount Circle (MHC #1102), 1925; 42 Somerset Road (MHC # 1130), 1923. A house designed by Brown at 31 Somerset Road was torn down in 2013. William Roger Greeley designed the house at 16 Franklin Road (MHC #1052) in 1910 and the aforementioned house at 38 Somerset Road (MHC # 1125) in 1912-1913 for his own residence. A house designed by Greeley in 1950 at 6 Oakland Street was torn down in 2007. Royal Barry Wills, who designed quite a few buildings in Lexington and was especially known for his interpretation of the Cape Cod house, was responsible for a Garrison Colonial at 43 Woodland Road (MHC # 1144), a Tudor Revival Style house at 39 Meriam Street (MHC # 1096) in 1938, and Cape style houses at 35 Woodland Road in 1939 (MHC #2171), 3 Franklin Road in 1956 (MHC #2118), 2 Oakmount Circle in 1960 (MHC #2157) and possibly 100 Meriam Street (1938) (MHC #2153), 23 Hayes Avenue (1950), not on the inventory, 6 Colony Road (1936) (MHC #2109), 86 Meriam Street (1927) (MHC #2145), and 12 Woodland Road (1940) (MHC #2165). Verification of the attribution of the latter buildings awaits matching of the names of original owners with names on the Royal Barry Wills Associates client list. Charles Platt is represented by a single dwelling, 95 Meriam Street (MHC #2150), one of his few residential commissions, designed in 1916 though it has since been substantially remodeled.. The architects of other buildings in the MHA area include the following. Francis Allen and Arthur Kenway designed the houses at 17 Oakland Street (MHC #372) and 19 Oakland Street (MHC #373). Samuel D. Kelley was the architect of 6 Abbott Road (MHC #405) in 1902. Edward Bridge designed the Church of Our Redeemer at 6 Meriam Street (MHC #2143). Bridge also designed the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 1386 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 5 H See data sheet Massachusetts Avenue (1966). Ralph Herman Hannaford was the architect of the interesting Tudor style house with nautical decorative details on the interior at 19 Hancock Street (MHC #2133). Lewis Sise of Haven and Hoyt, architects of Boston, designed 8 Oakmount Circle (MHC #1105) in 1922. Isaac Melvin is the first architect known to have designed a building in the MHC district in 1846: the General Samuel Chandler House at 8 Goodwin Road (NRIND 1977). Melvin designed a number of important Lexington buildings in the 1830s and 1840s, including the Stone Building at 735 Massachusetts Avenue in East Lexington in 1833 (NRIND 1976) and First Parish Church at 7 Harrington Road in 1847 (MHC #56). E.P.A Newcomb was the architect of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at 17 Meriam Street (MHC #380) in 1886; in 1960 Edward Reed was responsible for an addition to the church. John May of Magnolia designed the house at 6 Stetson Street (MHC #392) and Walter J. Paine designed the one at 2 Oakland Street (MHC #367). George H. Sidebottom designed the house at 6 Berwick Road in 1912 (MHC #1033). E. T. Stewart was the architect of the house at 61 Meriam Street (MHC #389) in 1913. A number of builders are known to have constructed houses in the Merriam Hill Association area. Lexington's two most prolific builders in the 19th century, David Ainsworth Tuttle and Abram C. Washburn, are well represented. David Tuttle might be considered a serial developer as he constructed houses at 22, 24, 30 and 40 Hancock Street (MHC #s 106, 107, 109 and 120), respectively "for himself" and then sold them in short order to others. He also constructed the buildings at 17 Adams Street (MHC #700), 53 Hancock Street (MHC #730), 19 Meriam Street (MHC #381), 27 Meriam Street (MHC #384), 20 Oakland Street (MHC #374) and 27 Oakland Street (MHC #378). Abram C. Washburn built a number of houses on Merriam Hill including 2 Oakland Street (MHC #367), 35 Meriam Street (MHC # 386), 25 Oakland Street (MHC # 377), 4 Chandler Street (MHC #384), and 3 Upland Road (MHC #398). He also built more modest houses speculatively on the outskirts of the area where larger houses were built, including 4 Upland Road (MHC # 399), 6 Upland Rd, (MHC #400), 4 Glen Road (MHC #401), 12 Glen Road (MHC #404), and probably 6 Glen Road (MHC #402) and 8 Glen Road (MHC #403). Other builder/contractors working in the MHA area included Walter Black, who built the house 43 Woodland Road (MHC #1144) and Custance Bros., who built 4 Oakmont Circle (MHC #1102). In addition, Deveau Bros. built 6 Stetson Street (MHC #392), T. H. O'Connor built 6 Abbott Road (MHC #405), 32 Edgewood Road (MHC #603), 28 Meriam Street (MHC #385), and 20 Meriam Street (MHC #382). John May of Magnolia built 17 Oakland Street (MHC #372) and 19 Oakland Street (MHC #373). John MacKinnon built 14 Oakland Street (MHC #370) and 20 Oakland Street (MHC #374). John McKay, who came to Lexington from Prince Edward Island in 1883 and had a house and shop at 12 Fletcher Avenue, built 6 Chandler Street (MHC #396) and 7 Adams Street MHC #1018). O. B. Marston built 3 Chandler Street (MHC #394), and Winthrop Contractors constructed 10 Round Hill Road (MHC #1612). Patrick Dacey, the first owner of the house at 66 Hancock Street (MHC #1059) probably built the house, as he was a contractor and mason. Several significant landscapes, the Chiesa Farm and the Ada Govan Bird Sanctuary, enrich the area. A general interest in landscaping and an assemblage of well-documented specimen trees are found in the MHA neighborhood. These follow on the interest in horticulture of the early owners of the great estates on the Hill. Some of their plantings are still present in the area. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 6 H See data sheet The source of the design of many of the houses is not known. Only two have been identified as having been published in house design books of the 1930s: 45 Adams Street (1937) (MHC #2105) and 4 Wadman Circle (MHC #1138). Others like 43 Hayes Avenue (1928) (MHC #2142), a small side-entrance Colonial, are similar to published designs such as one offered by the Small House Service Bureau. Some of the larger early 20th century houses may have been designed by Willard Brown, as they exhibit characteristics similar to those he is known to have designed. An outstanding feature of the Merriam Hill neighborhood is the extent to which houses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries have survived without significant change and have been well maintained by their owners. No other area of Lexington includes as many well-preserved sizable, architect-designed houses from that period. However, it is the mix of larger and smaller houses of a range of dates that defines the Merriam Hill area today and that is important to preserve, if the full history of the area's development is to be understood and the area's substantial architectural integrity is to be maintained. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Explain historical development of the area. Discuss how this relates to the historical development of the community. Much of the land comprising the Merriam Hill neighborhood was included in a grant of 600 acres made in 1636 when Lexington was part of Cambridge. The grant encompassed all of the current Lexington Center. Soon, under the ownership of the Pelham family, the land began to be cleared and farmed. When the future Lexington was set off from Cambridge as a separate parish in 1691, the area became known as Cambridge Farms. Farming continued to be a primary occupation of residents into the 20th century. Like much of Lexington, the Merriam Hill area has a history of use as farmland or associated woodland. By the late 17th century the Pelham grant was sold off in large parcels that remained intact into the 19th century. In 1693, Benjamin Muzzey purchased 206 acres, including the land north of what would become "Massachusetts Avenue," extending from east of Grant Street, along Hancock Street almost as far as Adams Street, and over Merriam Hill. In 1708, Muzzey sold land to the parish for a Common. Five years later, after Lexington was incorporated as a town, Muzzey's son, John, opened a public house in the building adjacent to the Common that would become known as the Buckman Tavern, famous for its role in the Revolution. Forty-two acres of land, including the southwest side of Merriam Hill continued to be part of the Tavern property until the second half of the 19th century, when it was owned by the Meriam family. David Muzzey owned the southeastern part of the hill into the late 19th century. Descendants of the Hancock-Clarke family owned 50 acres of land, originally purchased from Benjamin Muzzey, on both sides of Hancock Street stretching from the Common to Adams Street. The Fiske family owned much of the northern part of the Merriam Hill area from the 18th century on. The Chiesa Farm Conservation Land and several surviving farmhouses on Adams and East Streets attest to the region's agricultural heritage. Over the course of the 19th and into the 20th century the subdivision of these large parcels reflected the transformation of Lexington from a farming community to a suburb. The Merriam Hill neighborhood evolved to INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 7 H See data sheet include many houses of architectural distinction. Proximity to the meetinghouse on the Common and access to the Lexington and West Concord Railroad station after the line was built in 1846 made the area particularly attractive for development. Many of the Hill's new residents first came to Lexington as summer visitors who appreciated the Town's natural beauty and healthy environment. Most of the houses were built on individually purchased lots. Relatively few were built on speculation by developers until the late 1970s. Since then all the remaining larger parcels of open land, except those devoted to the Fiske School and two conservation areas, have been built out by developers. Recently, the continuing appeal of the neighborhood has resulted in the replacement of a number of houses, not previously surveyed, with new construction. Hancock Street was the first area to be built up. The Hancock-Clarke House of 1737 at 36 Hancock Street (NHL 1976) is the oldest surviving building in the Merriam Hill neighborhood. In the early 19th century further development of the street began, as the surviving Clarke sisters sold off land from their father's estate. With the coming of the railroad, Hancock Street became the first place in Lexington where houses with stylistic pretensions were built, prompting Charles Hudson to call Hancock Street the "Court End" of Lexington in his 1868 history of the Town. The first was the Italianate villa of General Samuel Chandler at 8 Goodwin Road (NRIND 1977), designed by Isaac Melvin and built in 1846. Chandler had been a major in the Militia, and as a leading citizen of Lexington, served as sheriff of Middlesex County, state senator and trial justice. Edward Emerson, a provisions dealer in Lexington, built an imposing Italianate house of a different kind on adjacent land in 1848. Benjamin F. Brown, a wealthy insurance agent from Charlestown, acquired the house in 1876 and enlarged and remodeled it. The house was torn down in the early 1930s, but the rear ell survives as a dwelling at 17 Patriot's Drive. After 1898, all of Brown's four sons lived on Merriam Hill in houses designed by his son, Willard, who was an architect. Francis B. Hayes, a railroad official, lawyer, state senator, and U.S. congressman, was Lexington's most prosperous resident in the late 19th century. When he first came to Lexington as a summer resident in 1861, he lived in an imposing house with a French roof and a cupola at 45 Hancock Street (later razed). Over time, he acquired additional property extending over Merriam Hill and to the east of Grant Street, encompassing nearly 400 acres. In 1883-4, Hayes built a five-story 32-room fieldstone mansion known as "The Castle" or "Oakmount" on what is now Castle Road. The Castle was demolished by dynamite in 1941, but two outbuildings from the estate were converted into dwellings, the former carriage house at 60 Meriam Street (MHC #388) and a large barn at 13-15 Somerset Street (MHC #1121). The house at 136 Grant Street may also have been part of the Hayes estate. Henry C. Pfaff, a German brewer, bought the estate in 1895 from Hayes's heirs. The owners of the above-described estates had a significant interest in horticulture. In some cases their plantings survive. Development of the southeastern part of Merriam Hill began after 1873 when land, previously owned by David Muzzey, was laid out in 33 house lots along new streets, Oakland and Stetson, and along a new portion of Meriam Street, which was extended beyond the current bike path. The southwest part of Merriam Hill remained in large estates belonging to Benjamin Brown, Charles Goodwin, a wholesale druggist, and Matthew Merriam. Merriam was a civil engineer, known for making improvements to machinery, especially machinery used in the INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 8 H See data sheet leather industry. Merriam and a partner began to produce leather trimmings for shoes in Charlestown in 1857. About 1869 Merriam purchased the Gen. Samuel Chandler estate and moved to Lexington. In 1882 he expanded his business by building the M. H Merriam & Co. factory on lower Oakland Street, now owned by Supportive Living, Inc. (NR 2008). The factory was described in1890 as the largest and best of its kind in the country. By 1898, Merriam had moved to Oakland Street and subdivided the former estate surrounding Goodwin Road into house lots in what was called "Colonial Park." The Benjamin Brown property located to the northwest was divided into house lots along Edgewood Road before 1898. The former Goodwin estate was the last to be subdivided when Hallie Blake laid out lots along Patriots Drive in 1925. Perhaps because Matthew Merriam was such a prominent citizen and successful entrepreneur, the name of the hill itself became associated with his spelling of the Merriam surname, rather than with that of the Rufus Meriam, whose heirs owned a substantial part of the hill until the late 19th century. Meriam Street is named for Rufus' family. The development of this most prosperous part of town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries had an effect beyond the borders of the neighborhood. The new residents, most of whose male heads of household worked in Boston, helped to transform Lexington from a rural town into a suburb. They were instrumental in establishing a town government in keeping with their vision of a modern progressive suburb (See Elizabeth Wright's doctoral dissertation, "Suburbanization and the Rural Domestic Ideal in Lexington, Massachusetts 1875-1915," Boston University, 1982). The new residents, both male and female, were involved in many improvements to the Town, in the founding of cultural institutions such as the Historical Society, and in services such as the Lexington Savings Bank. (See individual property forms for owner's specific contributions.) In 1903, the c. 400 acre Hayes estate, except for the six acres surrounding the Castle itself, was divided into house lots as part of the "Oakmount Park" subdivision, which included over 130 new building lots. Thus began the development of the northeast part of the Merriam Hill area in which many of the properties in the present study are found. Up until the 1920s, most of the residents continued the pattern of those who settled the southern part of the hill. They were prominent citizens, who worked primarily in Boston and could afford to build substantial architect-designed houses. After the period of upscale construction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, houses, generally more modest in scale, continued to be built on remaining lots. The house styles reflected the tastes of the time and the less expansive aspirations of owners in the Depression, World War II and the post war periods. Almost 100 of the more than 283 houses in the Merriam Hill Association district that are now more than 50 years old were built in the post war period, a fact the reflects the rapid suburban expansion and resultant population growth in Lexington, which caused the Town's population to double between 1945 and 1960. Major events in the more recent history of the Merriam Hill area include: 1. The moving of the Hancock-Clarke House in 1896 from the west to the east side of Hancock Street to save it from destruction. It was returned to its original site in 1974. 2. The construction of the Fiske School in 1949 and its replacement with a new building in 2007. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 9 H See data sheet 3. The establishment of the Ada Govan Bird Sanctuary conservation land. Fifteen years after the death of Mrs. Govan in 1964, ten acres of land, previously held in a private trust by the Govan family, were transferred to the Town of Lexington. 4. The establishment of the Chiesa Farm Conservation Land in 1976, with additions in 1985. 5. The establishment of the Merriam Hill Association in 1974. The Association was organized to protect the neighborhood from unwanted development, such as the proposal to develop the Merriam factory/Lexington Press property into twenty condominiums. 6. The termination of train service through Lexington in 1981 and the conversion of the railroad right of way into a bike path in 1992. 7. The relocation of the Charles K. Tucker House (MHC # 86) from the site of St. Brigid's Church to 35 Hancock Street and its renovation in 2012. The role played by developers in the Merriam Hill area has expanded over time. The earliest speculative development occurred in the early 1870s when John L. Norris built a series of houses including five Mansard-roofed cottages on Hancock Avenue, of which four survive at 5, 7, 9 and 11 Hancock Avenue (MHC#s 115, 114, 113, 112). Abram C. Washburn built houses speculatively on Glen and Upland Roads between 1890 and 1910. It was not until the late 1970s that the remaining large parcels of open land began to be bought up and developed. Lexington developer Mark Moore built Fiske Common, including Muster Court and Seaborn Place, in 1977 and 1978, after designs by Merton Barrows, who had recently retired from the firm of Royal Barry Wills. The Windermere Group of Concord developed Porter Lane in 2000. Homes Development Corp. of Burlington developed Wisteria Lane in 2008. John Keeler initiated the development of Keeler Farm Road in 2013. Oak Knoll Park off Adams Street began to be developed by Brooks and Hill Custom Builders in 2014 on the last remaining sizeable piece of land available for development in the Merriam Hill Area. Beginning in the 1990s, Merriam Hill became a prime area for "teardowns" as smaller houses were replaced with larger and more elaborate ones. The combination of the replacements and the new developments of larger homes has resulted in a total of fifty-two sizable new dwellings being built in the last twenty years. These houses reflect the desire of affluent families to live on a relatively grand scale in this part of Lexington, a phenomenon that is perhaps not unlike the first wave of expansive architecture built on Merriam Hill exactly 100 years ago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 10 H See data sheet BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Published Sources Gebhard, David. “Royal Barry Wills and the Colonial Revival”, Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1992. Govan, Ada. Wings at my Window. New York: Macmillan Co, 1940. Hinkle, Alice and Andrea Cleghorn. Life in Lexington 1946-1995. Lexington: Lexington Savings Bank, 1996. Howells, William D. Three Villages. Boston: James R. Osgood 7 Co., 1884. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1868. Boston: Wiggin and Lunt, 1868. __________. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1868. Revised and continued to 1912. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Historical Society. 1913 Vol. I, History; Vol. II, Genealogies. Ideal Homes and Daniel D. Reiff. Ideal Homes of the Thirties. Reprint. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2010. Kollen, Richard. Lexington: From Liberty’s Birthplace to Progressive Suburb. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Arcadia Publishing, 2004. Lexington Directories. Various publishers, 1894, 1899, 1902-3, 1906, 1908-9, 1918, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942. Lexington Minute-man. 1871-present, various issues. Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society. Vols 1-4. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Historical Society, 1889- 1912. Reiff, Daniel D. Houses from Books. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Sileo, Thomas P. Historical Guide to Open Space in Lexington. Lexington: Thomas P. Sileo, 1995. Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. New York: Vantage Press, 1998. __________. A Calendar History of Lexington, Massachusetts, 1620-1946. Lexington: Lexington Savings Bank, 1946. Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981. Unpublished Sources Brown, Willard, Collection. Lexington Historical Society Archives, Lexington, Massachusetts. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 11 H See data sheet Grady, Anne A. “The Architecture of Willard D. Brown.” Paper submitted to AM 785, Boston University, 1986. Lexington Historical Society Archives, Lexington, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Historical Commission. Cultural Historic Resources Survey: Lexington. Merriam Hill Association By-Laws and Articles of Organization. Merriam Hill Association, 1974. Oral History Collection, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. Photograph and manuscript collections. Lexington Historical Society Archives. Lexington, Massachusetts. Middlesex South Registry of Deeds. Various deeds and plans. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sileo File, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. Some Meriam Hill Area Trees, Lexington Field and Garden Club, 1988. Sileo File, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. Tuttle, David Ainsworth. “List of buildings erected in Lexington." Presented to the Lexington Historical Society, April 4, 1904. Lexington Historical Society Archives, Lexington, Massachusetts. Wills, Richard. "List of buildings in Lexington designed by Royal Barry Wills, and Royall Barry Wills and Associates." January 2014. Worthen Collection, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. Atlases Beers, F.W. County Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: J.B. Beers & Co., 1875. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town of Lexington in the County of Middlesex. Boston: Pendleton’s Lithography, 1830. Sanborn Map Co. Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1908, 1918, 1927, 1935. Stadley, George W. & Co. Atlas of the Towns of Watertown, Belmont, Arlington and Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George W. Stadley & Co., 1898. Walker, George H. & Co. Atlas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Boston: George H. Walker & Co., 1889 & 1906. Walling, H.F. Map of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. A. Kollner: 1853. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 12 H See data sheet Merriam Hill District Data Sheet of Inventoried Properties Map Resource Address Style Date MHC # 56/165 Errol and Elinor Locke House 3 Abbott Road Colonial Revival 1925 1016 56/166 Arthur C. Whitney House 6 Abbott Road Colonial Revival 1907 405 63/72 Albert and Mary Tenney House 1 Adams Street Dutch Colonial w/Craftsman 1910 1017 63/71F Melissa Downer House 7 Adams Street Colonial Revival 1898 1018 63/77A George O. Whiting/Gilmore House 8 Adams Street Craftsman / Colonial 1903 697 63/79 House 12 Adams Street Greek Revival (altered) 1886 / 2000 2101 63/80 George Simonds, Jr. House 16 Adams Street Victorian Eclectic (demolished 2012) 1868 698 63/80 Barn 16 Adams Street 699 63/70 Charles L. Pook House 17 Adams Street Greek Revival 1858 700 63/81 Charles C. Doe House 18 Adams Street Craftsman 1903 701 63/82 Freemen J. Doe House 20 Adams Street Craftsman 1903 702 63/69 House 21 Adams Street Colonial Revival / Craftsman 1902 2102 63/83 House 24 Adams Street Colonial Revival 1922 2103 63/32 George and Anna Russell House 25 Adams Street Colonial Revival 1905 1019 63/32 Garage 25 Adams Street 1020 63/117 George and Ruth Graves House 33 Adams Street Craftsman 1925 1021 63/117 Garage 33 Adams Street 1022 63/105A House 36 Adams Street Italianate 1840 2104 63/116 Chapman/Johnson/Porter/ Warren House 39 Adams Street Queen Anne 1884 703 63/107 David Simonds House/Maplemere/Chiesa Farm 42 Adams Street Federal w/additions c.1802- 1830 704 63/107 Barn/Carriage House 42 Adams Street 705 13/115 Amos Locke House 43 Adams Street Greek Revival 1840- 1843 706 63/114 House 45 Adams Street Tudor Revival 1937 2105 63/52 Percy Irvine House 1 Berwick Road Shingle Style/Dutch Colonial 1908 1031 63/61A William and Marcia Nash House 2 Berwick Road Craftsman/Four Square 1912 1032 63/51 House 5 Berwick Road Colonial Revival 1930 2106 63/62 Herbert and Grace Russell House 6 Berwick Road Craftsman 1912 1033 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 13 H See data sheet 63/50 House 7 Berwick Road Craftsman Colonial c.1910 1551 63/63 House 8 Berwick Road Dutch Colonial 1928 2107 63/49 Harry Stone House 9 Berwick Road Colonial Revival/ Craftsman 1915 1034 63/64 Paul and Jane Lewis House 10 Berwick Road Craftsman/ Colonial Revival c.1910 1035 63/48 House 11 Berwick Road Craftsman 1920 2108 63/65 Ernest and Charlotte Russell House 12 Berwick Road Colonial Revival 1921 1036 56/149 French-Dale House 2 Chandler Street Queen Anne 1896 393 56/148 Edwin Forbes House 3 Chandler Street English Revival 1902 394 56/148 Garage 3 Chandler Street c. 1920 1146 56/150 Arthur Howe House 4 Chandler Street Queen Anne 1895 395 56/150 Garage 4 Chandler Street c. 1920 1147 56/155 James Perrott Prince House 6 Chandler Street Colonial Revival 1891 396 63/132 House 6 Colony Road Dutch Colonial 1936 2109 63/133 House 10 Colony Road Dutch Colonial 1937 2110 63/19B House 17 Colony Road Cape (expanded) 1931 2111 63/18 House 21 Colony Road Colonial Revival 1935 2112 63/17 House 27 Colony Road Cape 1937 2113 63/16 House 29 Colony Road Dutch Colonial 1930 2114 63/141 James J. Burton House 38 Colony Road Four Square 1912 1559 63/112 House 49 East Street Italianate 1880 709 62/7 Timothy K. Fiske House 71 East Street Italianate 1872 711 62/7 Barn 71 East Street 712 62/7 Barn/Garage 71 East Street 713 56/91 House 11 Edgewood Road Colonial Revival 1932 2115 56/90 House (Part of Brown Estate) 17 Edgewood Road Colonial Revival 1930 2116 56/92 Frank D. Brown House 18 Edgewood Road Colonial Revival w/Queen Anne elements 1894- 1898 407 56/89 Raymond and Grace Hathaway House 23 Edgewood Road Dutch Colonial 1924 1049 56/18 Ronald and Velma Brown House 27 Edgewood Road Georgian Revival 1929 1050 56/93 House 30 Edgewood Road Cape 1938 2117 56/94B House 32 Edgewood Road This is carriage house for 28 Meriam Craftsman 1906 608 (H) 56/131B House 3 Franklin Road Cape (Thought to be RBW) 1956 2118 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 14 H See data sheet 56/221 Kelsey Reed House 10 Franklin Road Craftsman c. 1920 406 56/118 James W. Smith House 16 Franklin Road Colonial w/Shingle style elements 1910 1052 56/160 House 4 Glen Road Queen Anne 1898- 1906 401 56/161 Aril Wetherbee House 6 Glen Road Shingle Style c. 1894 402 56/162 Charles Wheeler/Greene House 8 Glen Road Shingle Style 1898 403 56/159 Clifford & Ethel White House 9 Glen Road Four Square 1907 1149 (H) 56/159 Garage 9 Glen Road c. 1917 1150 (H) 56/163B John Ballard House 12 Glen Road Four Square w/ Queen Anne elements 1907 404 56/195 Muzzey Homestead 14 Glen Road S Greek Revival 1835 679 56/194 Joseph and Lena Fiske House 21 Glen Road S Sears & Roebuck? 1920 1053 56/194 Garage 21 Glen Road S Cape early 20th C. 1054 56/60 John Calder House 5 Goodwin Road Colonial Revival 1921 2119 56/59 House 8 Goodwin Road Italianate 1847 101 NRIND 56/58 House 17 Goodwin Road Tudor Revival 1933 2120 48/105 House 2,4 Grant Place Italianate 1898 LHC Priority List 48/109 House 10 Grant Place Cape 1930 2121 48/112 House 11 Grant Place Queen Anne 1880 2122 48/104 Boston Edison Building #34 4 Grant Street Classical Revival 1913 603 48/114 House 22 Grant Street Colonial 1935 G 48/116 House 30 Grant Street Shingle Style 1920 2123 48/117 House 32, 34 Grant Street Modified Italianate 1880 G 48/122 House 64 Grant Street Bungalow? (altered) 1925 2124 56/201B House 90 Grant Street Contemporary 1973 2125 55/29 House 132,134 Grant Street Colonial (altered) 1930 2126 55/30 House 136,138 Grant Street Colonial (altered) 1925 2127 56/25 House 2 Hancock Avenue Colonial Revival 1925 2128 56/35 G. C. Cutter House 5 Hancock Avenue Mansard Cottage c. 1873 115 56/26 House 6 Hancock Avenue Dutch Colonial 1925 2129 56/27 Leander T. Wing 7 Hancock Avenue Mansard Cottage 1871 or 1872 114 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 15 H See data sheet 56/27 John L. Norris House 8 Hancock Avenue Greek Revival/Italianate c. 1870 110 56/33 James Emery House 9 Hancock Avenue Mansard Cottage 1871 or 1872 113 56/28 William and Ethel Crowther House 10 Hancock Avenue Colonial Revival c. 1918 1568 56/32 House 11 Hancock Avenue Mansard Cottage 1865 112 56/29 A. L. Scott House 12 Hancock Avenue Colonial Revival (later alteration) 1873 1569 56/31 W. R. Cutter House 13 Hancock Avenue Italianate 1873 111 56/57 House 11 Hancock Street Dutch Colonial 1926 2130 56/17 Reed/Hinchey House 12 Hancock Street Federal/Greek Revival c. 1830 102 55/56 House 15 Hancock Street 1915 2131 56/18 James Sumner/Herbert Locke House 16 Hancock Street Gothic Revival c. 1845 103 56/55 House 17 Hancock Street Garrison Colonial 1930 2132 56/19 Amos Locke House 18 Hancock Street Italianate 1842 104 56/54 House 19 Hancock Street Tudor Revival 1921 2133 56/20 J. S. Parker House 20 Hancock Street Italianate w/ Mansard roof added c. 1840 105 56/53 House 21 Hancock Street Colonial Revival 1932 2134 56/21 David A. Tuttle House 22 Hancock Street Italianate 1855 106 56/52 House 23 Hancock Street Dutch Colonial 1930 2135 56/22 David A. Tuttle House 24 Hancock Street Italianate 1865 107 56/50 House 25 Hancock Street Tudor Revival 1933 2136 56/23 Oliver Kendall House 26 Hancock Street Greek Revival c. 1840 108 56/49 Arthur Gilman House 27 Hancock Street Dutch Colonial 1931 1057 56/24 Tuttle-Bennett House 30 Hancock Street Greek Revival 1845 109 56/48 House 31 Hancock Street Greek Revival/Italianate 1840s 124 56/37 William Henry Greeley House 32 Hancock Street Italianate c. 1870s 117 56/47 House 33 Hancock Street Greek Revival c. 1850s 123 56/38 House 34 Hancock Street Italianate c. 1860s 118 56/46 Charles Tucker House 35 Hancock Street Italianate c. 1850s 86 56/39B Hancock-Clarke House 36 Hancock Street Georgian 1737 119 56/45 House 37 Hancock Street Federal w/ Greek Revival additions 1780 122 56/39C Tuttle-Brigham House 40 Hancock Street Italianate 1847 120 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 16 H See data sheet 56/53 Philip and Marion Clark House 41 Hancock Street Colonial Revival c. 1920 121 56/40 Warren M. Batcheller House #1 46 Hancock Street Colonial Revival 1897 725 56/42 Bennett Williams House 47 Hancock Street Bungalow 1814 1058 56/41 Warren M. Batcheller House #2 48 Hancock Street Colonial Revival 1903- 04 726 56/41 Carriage House/Garage 48 Hancock Street 727 64/130 Warren M. Batcheller House #3 50 Hancock Street Colonial Revival 1903- 04 728 64/131 House, former shop 52 Hancock Street Colonial Revival simplified c. 1870s 729 63/74 Jos. F. Simonds/Batcheller/Stone House 53 Hancock Street Italianate w/ Colonial Revival and Jacobethan additions 1849 730 64/132 Albert and Catherine Spaulding House 54 Hancock Street Italianate 1874 731 63/73A Davis House 55 Hancock Street Shingle Style 1900 732 64/133 Warren Duren House 56 Hancock Street Greek Revival w/ Colonial Revival additions 1849 733 64/134 Lorin Wetherell House 58 Hancock Street Mansard Cottage 1872 734 63/59 Bowen and Octavia Tufts House 10 Hayes Avenue Colonial Revival 1908 1063 63/59 Garage 10 Hayes Avenue 1941 1064 63/60 Edward and Barbara Larner House 12 Hayes Avenue Colonial Revival, substantially remodeled and enlarged 1900/ 2007 1065 63/53 House 22 Hayes Avenue Cape 1940 2137 63/54 Henry L. and Marion Wadsworth House 26 Hayes Avenue Craftsman 1912 1571 56/126A House 27 Hayes Avenue Cape (expanded) 1938 2138 56/125 Howard and Bertha Nichols House 29 Hayes Avenue Craftsman/Colonial Revival 1914 1066 56/125 Garage 29 Hayes Avenue 1067 63/58 House 31 Hayes Avenue Modified Bungalow 1915 2139 63/55 House 32 Hayes Avenue Tudor Revival 1920 2140 63/56 House 34 Hayes Avenue Tudor Revival 1928 2141 63/57 Alexander Wadsworth House 36 Hayes Avenue Craftsman/Colonial Revival c. 1910 1572 63/41 House 43 Hayes Avenue Colonial Revival 1928 2142 56/62 Church of Our Redeemer 6 Meriam Street 2143 56/81 Guy & Belle Chace House 10 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1937 1152 56/82 Ira & Edith Rymal House 12 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1938 1153 (H) 48/95 Farnsworth-Tucker House 15 Meriam Street Queen Anne 1888? 36 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 17 H See data sheet 56/84 Plaque in Wall 16 Meriam Street Form C 56/140 St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church 17 Meriam Street Gothic Revival 1886 380 56/139 McDonald House 19 Meriam Street Queen Anne 1887 381 56/86 Willard Brown House 20 Meriam Street Col. Revival/Craftsman 1905 382 56/137 James & Blanche Lewis House 23 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1927 1158 (H) 56/87 Neil & Lila McIntosh House 24 Meriam Street Dutch Colonial 1928 1159 (H) 56/136 George H. Emery House 25 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1884 383 56/136 Garage 25 Meriam Street c. 1920 1160 56/135 Robert P. Clapp House 27 Meriam Street Queen Anne 1889 384 56/94A “Ogeedankee”/Fred Brown House 28 Meriam Street Craftsman 1907 385 56/133A Charles Miles House 35 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1906 386 56/132 James and Helen Barrington House 39 Meriam Street Tudor Revival 1939 1096 56/168A House 40 Meriam Street Tudor Revival 1948 2144 56/174 House 56 Meriam Street Modern 1956 2145 56/186C William and Katie Reed House 57 Meriam Street Italian Villa c. 1914 387 56/172A Hayes Carriage House 60 Meriam Street Stone Carriage house remodeled 1883- 84 388 56/185 Howard and Mabel Winlock House 61 Meriam Street Craftsman 1913 389 63/45 Obert and Beatrice Sletten House 73 Meriam Street Dutch Colonial 1918 1097 63/44 House 77 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1931 2146 63/43 House 83 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1931 2147 63/47 House 86 Meriam Street Cape 1927 2148 63/39 House 89 Meriam Street Cape 1925 2149 63/38 House 95 Meriam Street Neoclassical Revival (altered) 1916 2150 63/66 House 96 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1940 2151 63/37 Henry and Susan Seaver House 97 Meriam Street Dutch Colonial 1914 1098 63/36 House 99 Meriam Street Colonial Revival 1937 2152 63/67 House 100 Meriam Street Cape 1938 2153 63/35 House 101 Meriam Street Dutch Colonial 1926 2154 63/34 House 103 Meriam Street Cape (altered) 1934 2155 48/94 House 1 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1898- 1906 37 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 18 H See data sheet 48/94 Garage 1 Oakland Street c. 1920 1163 48/81 Matthew Merriam House 2 Oakland Street Shingle Style/ Queen Anne 1894 367 48/81 Garage 2 Oakland Street c. 1930 1164 48/93 Lilla Dickey House 3 Oakland Street Dutch Colonial 1925 1165 (H) 48/82 G.H. Emery House 4 Oakland Street Queen Anne/ Colonial Revival c. 1900 368 48/92 Lexington Press (former Nathaniel Merriam Barn) 7 Oakland Street Italianate 1883 38 48/92 Garage 7 Oakland Street c. 1920 1167 48/85 House 10 Oakland Street Bungalow 1910 1169 48/85 Garage 10 Oakland Street 1170 48/86 Dr. Nathaniel Henry Merriam House 12 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1889 369 56/145 Alonzo E. Locke House 14 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1887 370 56/146 Edmund K. Houghton House 16 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1888 371 48/90A G. S. Jackson House, Maywood Cottage 17 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1883- 1884 372 48/90A Garage complex 17 Oakland Street 1173 48/89B E. P. Bliss House, Cedarcroft 19 Oakland Street Queen Anne/Craftsman 1883- 1884 373 48/89B Garage 19 Oakland Street 1174 48/88B House 19A Oakland Street Dutch Colonial w/modern addition before 1927 2156 56/156A Herbert Wellington House 20 Oakland Street Shingle Style/Queen Anne 1887 374 56/156A Barn 20 Oakland Street 1175 56/193 House 21 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1890 1176 (H) 56/192 George B. Grant House 23 Oakland Street Queen Anne 1887 375 56/192 Garage 23 Oakland Street 1177 56/157A House 24 Oakland Street Craftsman/English Revival 1910- 17 376 56/191 Theodore Parker Robinson 25 Oakland Street Shingle Style 1887 377 56/158 House 26 Oakland Street Colonial Revival 1937 1178 (H) 56/190 Charlotte E. Smith House 27 Oakland Street Colonial Revival 1895 378 56/189 Egen R. Ferguson House 29 Oakland Street English Revival 1895 379 56/198 Garage 29 Oakland Street 1179 56/180 House 2 Oakmount Circle Colonial Revival RBW? 1961 2157 56/181 Robert and Grace Merriam House 4 Oakmount Circle Dutch Colonial 1925 1102 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 19 H See data sheet 56/17 John and Elinor Proctor House 6 Oakmount Circle Craftsman / Mission 1916 1103 56/17 Garage 6 Oakmount Circle 1104 55/18 Sherburne and Mary Prescott House 8 Oakmount Circle Colonial Revival 1923 1105 55/18 Garage/Gardner's Cottage 8 Oakmount Circle 1106 55/19 House 10 Oakmount Circle Modern Deck House 1964 2158 56/183 Mrs. Halle Blake House 18 Oakmount Circle Colonial Revival/Contemporary 1938 2159 56/184A Frank and Dorothy Sheldon House 28 Oakmount Circle Tudor Revival 1929 1107 56/65 House 6 Patriots Drive Georgian Revival 1938 2160 56/77 House 7 Patriots Drive Colonial Revival 1940 2161 56/68 House 12 Patriots Drive Dutch Colonial 1926 2162 56/74 Benjamin F. Brown Carriage House 15 Patriots Drive Queen Anne 1885- 1895 408 56/70 Emerson-Whitmore-Brown House 17 Patriots Drive Italianate c. 1850 409 56/198A Joseph and Marion Leonard House 10 Round Hill Road Craftsman/Colonial 1913 1612 56/104 House 11 Somerset Road Dutch Colonial 1928 2163 56/103 Hayes Estate Barn, now Multi- family house 13, 15 Somerset Street Colonial elements Late 19th C. 1121 56/111 Fred and Fannie Woodruff House 24 Somerset Road Craftsman 1912- 1913 1122 56/111 Garage 24 Somerset Road 1917 1123 56/100 House 37 Somerset Road Colonial Revival/ Craftsman 1910? 1124 56/112 William and Marjory Greeley House 38 Somerset Road Colonial Revival 1912- 1913 1125 56/99 Henry Stratton House 39 Somerset Road Colonial Revival/Craftsman 1912 1126 56/99 Garage 39 Somerset Road 1127 56/98 William and Grace Shurtleff 41 Somerset Road Colonial Revival/ Craftsman 1912 1128 56/98 Garage 41 Somerset Road 1129 56/113 George and Marjory Emery House 42 Somerset Road Colonial Revival 1923 1130 56/97 Clarence and Edith Shannon House 43 Somerset Road Craftsman/Colonial Revival 1913 1131 56/114A Lawrence and Olive Burnham House 44 Somerset Road Dutch Colonial 1927 1132 56/96E Edwin and Ida Stevens House 47 Somerset Road Craftsman/ Colonial Revival 1926 1133 56/142 C. C. Goodwin House 3 Stetson Road Mansard c. 1880 390 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 20 H See data sheet 56/143 House 4 Stetson Road Cape 1938 1182 (H) 56/141 Frederick Lincoln Emery House 5 Stetson Road Shingle Style 1894 391 56/144 Edward Porter Merriam House 6 Stetson Road Colonial Revival/Queen Anne 1894 392 56/154 Herbert H. Saunders House 1 Upland Road Shingle Style 1894 397 56/153 Stratton House 3 Upland Road Colonial Revival 1895 398 56/151 House 4 Upland Road Colonial Revival c. 1900 399 56/152 Fred Cloyes House 6 Upland Road Shingle Style 1898- 1906 400 56/152 Garage 6 Upland Road 1185 56/71 House 4 Wadman Circle Tudor Revival 1928 1138 56/72 Benjamin F. Brown Estate 6 Wadman Circle Queen Anne c. 1885- 1985 410 56/73 House 8 Wadman Circle Italianate 1860 1620 63/28 House 11 Woodland Road Bungalow 1934 2164 63/121 House 12 Woodland Road Cape 1940 2165 63/123 House 20 Woodland Road Craftsman 1918 2166 63/124 House 22 Woodland Road Dutch Colonial 1920 2167 63/125 House 24 Woodland Road Colonial Revival 1929 2168 63/126 House 28 Woodland Road Craftsman 1924 2169 63/128 Ada Govan House 32 Woodland Road Colonial Revival 1930 2170 63/24 House 35 Woodland Road Cape 1939 2171 63/129 George M. and Bessie Fuller House 36 Woodland Road Colonial Revival 1916 1142 65/129 Garage 36 Woodland Road 1143 56/179 House 41 Woodland Road Garrison Colonial 1940 2172 56/178 D. Craig and Mildred Wark House 43 Woodland Road Garrison Colonial 1934- 35 1144 55/11 House 20 York Street Cape 1928 2173 55/27B House 27 York Street Craftsman? 1850 2174 65/26 Henry Robinson House 33 York Street Craftsman/ Colonial c. 1915 1623 55/14 House 38 York Street Colonial Revival 1939 2175 55/26 House 39 York Street Colonial Revival 1939 2176 55/24 House 43 York Street Colonial Revival 1929 2177 56/177 Walter and Marjory Temple House 51 York Street Dutch Colonial 1927- 28 1145 56/176A House 59 York Street Colonial Revival 1929 2178 INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 21 H See data sheet Supplementary photographs Photographs 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 of March-April 2013 are by Warren B. Manhard. Photographs 7, 9, 11, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 30 of May-June 2014 are by Anne Andrus Grady. 1) Whitmore-Brown House, built 1948, formerly on Hancock Street. Reproduced from Charles Hudson, History of Lexington, 1868. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 22 H See data sheet 2) Hayes House, built by 1868, formerly on Hancock Street. Reproduced from Charles Hudson, History of Lexington, 1868. 3) 26 Hancock Street. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 23 H See data sheet 4) 18 Hancock Street. 5) 14 Glen Road South. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 24 H See data sheet 6) 16 Hancock Street. 7) St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 25 H See data sheet 8) 3 Stetson Road. 9) Mansard Cottages at 7 and 5 Hancock Avenue. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 26 H See data sheet 10) 12 Oakland Street. 11) 25 Oakland Street. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 27 H See data sheet 12) 8 Adams Street. Willard Brown, architect. 13) 38 Colony Road. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 28 H See data sheet 14) 10 Berwick Road. 15) 47 Hancock Street. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 29 H See data sheet 16) 38 Somerset Road. William Roger Greeley, architect. 17) 4 Oakmount Circle. Willard Brown, architect. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 30 H See data sheet 18) 41 Woodland Road. 19) 3 Franklin Road. Royal Barry Wills, architect. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 31 H See data sheet 20) 40 Meriam Street. 21) 10 Oakmount Circle. "Deck House" designed by the Acorn Deck House Company. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 32 H See data sheet 22) 7 Berwick Road. Willard Brown, architect. 23) 16 Franklin Road. William Roger Greeley, architect. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 33 H See data sheet 24) 2 Oakmount Circle. Royal Barry Wills, architect. 25) 19 Hancock Street. Ralph Herman Hannaford, architect. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 34 H See data sheet 26) 6 Stetson Road. John May, architect and builder. 27) 40 Hancock Street. David A. Tuttle, builder. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 35 H See data sheet 28) 20 Meriam Street. Willard Brown, architect; T. H. O'Connor, builder. 29) 45 Adams Street. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 36 H See data sheet 34) Design number 418, Ideal Homes catalog, c. 1930. 30) 43 Hayes Avenue. INVENTORY FORM A CONTINUATION SHEET LEXINGTON MERRIAM HILL MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area Letter Form Nos. 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 37 H See data sheet 36) An Architects' Small House Service Bureau design. Reproduced from Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream, 1995.