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Survey of
Historic Sites and Buildings

	HANCOCK-CLARKE HOUSE Massachusetts
Location: 35 Hancock Street, Lexington. Lexington Historical Society

John Hancock and Sam Adams were staying in this house with the Reverend Jonas Clarke on the eventful night of April 18, 1775. Hancock and Adams were hustled away before the exchange of shots on Lexington Green, a quarter of a mile away, to avoid capture by the approaching British force. The house was built by Hancock's grandfather, and he had spent seven of his boyhood years there. The earlier part of the house was constructed in 1698, the later in 1734. The Lexington Historical Society moved the building in 1896 to a new site across the road from its original location. A brick addition was made in the rear 6 years later to afford protection for valuable possessions of the society.

NHL Designation: 07/17/71

	JASON RUSSELL HOUSE Massachusetts
Location: 7 Jason Street, Arlington. Arlington Historical Society

Jason Russell, 58 years old and lame, conducted his family to safety on the opening day of the War for Independence, April 19, 1775, and then returned to defend his home. During the British withdrawal from Lexington and Concord toward Boston, a group of minutemen was surprised by a flanking party and took refuge in Russell's house. Russell himself was killed in the doorway by the pursuing British, and 11 of the patriots were killed also. Eight who took refuge in the cellar held out successfully. Bullet holes in the house are evidence of the fighting. A number of objects relating to the first day of the Revolution are displayed. The gray clapboard house, erected about 1680, was occupied until 1890 by Russell descendents. After being turned around and moved back from the road, the house was rescued in 1923 by the Arlington Historical Society and carefully restored.

	MUNROE TAVERN Massachusetts
Location: 1332 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington. Lexington Historical Society

General Earl Percy, commander of the British relief party from Boston which aided the retreating British column being harrassed by minute men on the Lexington-Concord Road on April 19, 1775, established a temporary headquarters at the Munroe Tavern. The building was also an aid station for British wounded, being located a mile southeast of Lexington Green. The older part of the tavern was built in 1695 and an ell, added sometime after 1770, existed at the time of the Revolution but was later removed. The building is owned and exhibited by the Lexington Historical Society. It is a clapboard structure, surrounded by large trees, containing objects dating from the Revolutionary period.