East Lexington preserves considerable evidence of its economic, architectural, and intellectual heyday in the early nineteenth century, a time when the area was more prosperous than Lexington Center due to dressing factories and supporting trades. In addition to the significant assemblage of period buildings representing Greek Revival motifs and
Keith N. Morgan, "Follen Memorial Church", [Lexington, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-LX2.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 437-438.
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