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description

Summary

Significance: The highly academic and imposing quality of the overall form, roof, and elevations of the house is very unusual in this rural locality; it most closely resembles the sophisticated pre-Revolutionary houses of Portsmouth. It was built by a son of the legendary Ocean Born Mary.

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Building/structure dates: ca. 1961 Subsequent Work

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date_range

Date

1961
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Wallace, Robert
Wood, Charles B, historian
Peterich, Gerda, photographer
place

Location

Henniker (N.H.) ,  43.17983, -71.82229
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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