Quincy, Mass. Historical and Architectural Survey

14 Faxon Avenue

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
In 1857 Cotton C. Johnson, who owned an apothecary at 73 Hancock Street (old address), was the owner of a large lot (29,195 square feet) on Hancock Street which today encompasses 1246-1250 Hancock Street, 15 Saville Avenue, and 14 and 16 Faxon Avenue of the Quincy Center Local Historic District. By 1888 Johnson had built a large house on the lot. Eugene S. Taylor, a Boston dentist, and his wife, Fannie M., had bought approximately half the lot or 14,930 square feet, by 1897. The 1923 Atlas shows the Taylor lot with the house at 1246-1250 Hancock Street, a stone (cement) rectangular building at current address 14 Faxon Avenue and a house at current address 16 Faxon Avenue. It appears that the present "Farmer's Exchange" building at 14 Faxon Avenue is probably an enlargement of the cement building constructed in the 1920's.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
H. F. Walling. "Map of the Town of Quincy", 1857.
Atlas of Norfolk County, Mass., 1876.
Robinson's Atlas of Norfolk County, 1888.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1897.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1907.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1923.
Quincy City Directories, 1878, 1888, 1898, 1915, 1922.

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This is a utilitarian one story structure which was built in the 1920s and enlarged in the 1940s. Facing the street are large openings, once used as garages, now filled with a window placed in the center. An orange and yellow awning covers this facade. It is its location in the center of the district that makes it a part of the Quincy Center Local Historic District.

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