[MassHistPres] new Lexington Historical commission website

[M Fenollosa]

The Lexington Historical Commission is pleased to present our new 
website, http://historicsurvey.lexingtonma.gov.  Funded with CPA funds, 
the website provides a scanned version of our nine-volume Survey of 
Cultural Resources (the "Inventory"), as well as new descriptions of 46 
of the neighborhoods in town and a period-by-period synopsis of 
Lexington history -- all illustrated with representative photographs, 
maps and other useful information about the development of the Town and 
its buildings.  The website also contains scans of historic maps of 
Lexington, from the earliest -- 1641, hand drawn by Edwin Worthen -- to 
1906; many of these maps have owner names, providing an invaluable 
resource for dating and researching  homes.  We've provided a Guide to 
Architectural Styles, which points out the defining features of various 
building types; and a bibliography of Lexington resources, all of which 
are available through Cary Memorial Library.  There's also a list of our 
National Historic Landmarks and the Lexington properties listed on the 
National Register of Historic Places, as well as a catalogue of early 
Lexington building plans on file at the Mass. Archives.

We hope you will find the new website an interesting and useful 
resource.  We are grateful to the citizens of Lexington for their 
support of this important project, and we welcome your questions and 
comments.

Marilyn Fenollosa, for
the Lexington Historical Commission
781-862-0500 x 701