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Mulliken-Spragins Tenant House, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Mulliken-Spragins Tenant House, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Significance: The Mulliken-Spragins tenant house is typical of late nineteenth-century buildings constructed by Maryland Planters for Tenant farmers. The house utilized heavy hewn timers salvaged from and older building and was located between two other tenant houses on the Mulliken-Spragins Tobbaco Farm near bowie Maryland.

Eleven black families lived i the house throughout its known history from 1896-1967. In 1968, the house was dismantled and moved to the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of American History.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-65
Survey number: HABS DC-390

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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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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