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The Vermont Legislature
Welcome To Vermont's Historic State House HE VERMONT GENERAL ASSEMBLY and the Friends of the Vermont State House welcome your visit and invite you to view one of the nations oldest and best preserved state capitols. As you tour our halls and chambers, we hope you will develop a sense of what makes this historic building, and the state for which it was built, unique. After 140 years, the Vermont ...
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Satchmo.net The Official Site of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives
The Louis Armstrong House & Archives collection contains Armstrong's personal photographs, papers, scrapbooks, commercial recordings, private recordings, memorabilia, and musical instruments. The collection provides an intensely personal view of Armstrong's life.
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Orchard House - Home of the Alcotts
Nineteenth century museum home of Louisa May Alcott, writer of Little Women and of the Alcott family, in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Welcome to The Susan B. Anthony House!
Home & artifacts of Susan B. Anthony in Rochester, NY. Museum and National Historic Landmark of the champion of suffrage, abolition, temperance and equal rights. The 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was credited to her efforts.
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Historic Latta Plantation, A Living History Farm, Huntersville, NC
Historic Latta Plantation, circa 1800, once a successful cotton plantation, is now a living history farm.
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Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass. This exhibit features the museum and archival collections at Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the most famous African American ofthe19th Centuryy. Frederick Douglass' life spanned nearly eighty years, fromthe time that slavery was universal in American states ...
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Decatur House Museum
The Museum will be closed for restoration work on Saturday, August 10 and Sunday, August 11 Spend 2002 at Decatur House! check out our calendar of events or stop by for a FREE tour! Decatur House is one of the oldest surviving homes in Washington, DC, and one of only three remaining residential buildings in the country designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the father of American architecture.
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Alden Kindred and Alden Museum Home Page
Welcome to the official web site of the Alden Kindred of America & the Alden Historic Site. Enjoy your visit. Be sure to come back often. PLANS FOR OUR 102nd ANNUAL MEETING ARE COMPLETE. YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS YEAR'S EVENT! Alden Open Golf Tournament - Oct 7th - check it out! 2002 Annual Meeting Information & Registration Form Volume II of Alden genealogy now available Museum schedule & ...
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Gomez Mill House Virtual Museum
Gomez Mill House: the home of pioneers, patriots, gentleman farmers, artists, writers, statesmen, craftsmen and preservationists for over 283 years. A house that has been continually occupied since being built as a trading post by a Sephardic Jew searching for a life of freedom in the new world in 1714 and is therefore the oldest extant Jewish residence in North America. And, in this highly ...
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Surratt House Museum/John Wilkes Booth/Abraham Lincoln/Civil War/Assassination/Mary Surratt
Welcome to the Surratt House Museum Built in 1852 as a middle-class plantation home, historic Surratt House also served as a tavern and hostelry, a post office, and polling place during the crucial decade before the Civil War. During the war, it was a safehouse for the Confederate underground which flourished in Southern Maryland. It was the country home of Mary Surratt, first woman to be ...
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The Dickens House Museum, London
Welcome to the home page of the Dickens House Museum, London. A museum dedicated to the life and works of Charles Dickens Visit Dickens House About Dickens House Exhibitions & Special events Tour Dickens House Museum Store Museum Services Dickens Related Links Hire Dickens House Email Dickens House Museum ...
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Hildene - Historic Home of Robert Todd Lincoln in Manchester, Vermont
Hildene, historic summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln in Manchester, Vermont.
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Reynolda House, Museum of American Art
Home page for Reynolda House Museum of American Art, located in Winston-Salem North Carolina ...
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Historic Georgetown, Inc. - Historic Preservation Colorado
A non-profit corporation devoted to preservation of Georgetown, Colorado's 19th century heritage and restoration of some of its notable structures.
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Indian King Tavern Museum, Haddonfield, NJ
A photo tour and text history of the 250-year-old Indian King Tavern in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
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Karen Blixen Museet
Citat ...
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Mary Baker Eddy, Explore and Discover the life of Mary Baker Eddy at Longyear Museum,
About Us Visitor Information Mary Baker Eddy The Longyears Daycroft Library Museum Tour FAQs Helpful Links Membership Supporting Longyear Job Opportunities Volunteer Opportunities Main Exhibits Portrait Gallery Education Programs Events Calendar Longyear Tours Gifts Books Books by Mary Baker Eddy For Children Print Order Form Introduction Rumney, NH N. Groton, NH Concord, NH Amesbury, MA ...
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Woodrow Wilson House
Woodrow Wilson House - Washington's only Presidential Museum. National Trust Historic site. Read about it, see photos, and get Directions. The site alos provides research material for teachers, students and scholars.
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GORE PLACE Welcome
Nbsp &nbsp text only version To search this site, type keyword(s) and click Search. . Upcoming events : Stamp Lecture Concerts in the Carriage House Flowers in the Mansion GORE PLACE 52 Gore Street Waltham Massachusettes 02453-6866 E-mail: info@goreplace.org00-2001 | directions | tours | history | grounds | events | rentals | membership | education | directory | | contact | collaborations | ...
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Wylie House Museum
Wylie House Museum Bringing History Home 307 E. 2nd St. (2nd & Lincoln) Bloomington, IN 47401 Open Mar-Nov, Tue-Sat:10:00 am-2:00 pm About Wylie House Wylie House: Music from the Parlor Wylie House: Preserving Our Past 2002 Calendar Stenciling Project Wylie Family Letters Preface - Bonnie Williams and Elaine Herold Introduction - Wendy Gamber July 8, 1829 - Andrew Wylie to Margaret Ritchie Wylie ...
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Tudor Place Historic House and Garden
This neoclassical house and historic gardens was the home of six generations of the Peter family and is now a National Historic Landmark located in the heart of Georgetown's Historic District ...
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Tour 1841 Jason Lee House - Salem, Oregon
Oregon pioneer Jason Lee's 1841 house in Salem.
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1841 Methodist Parsonage - Salem, Oregon
The 1841 Methodist Parsonage is one of several pioneer early Oregon frame structures located at Mission Mill Museum in Salem, Oregon.
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1847 John D. Boon House - Oldest House in Salem, Oregon
Photograph of 1847 John D. Boon House at Mission Mill Village in Salem, Oregon.
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Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, KY
Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, Kentucky ...
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Locust Grove Historic Home
The ca. 1790 Georgian mansion and National Historic Landmark served as the last home of General George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War hero and founder of Louisville, KY. The fine brick home was owned by Clark's sister, Lucy Clark Croghan, and her husband, Major William Croghan, a close friend of the Clark family.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in National Capital Parks-East Located in Washington, DC TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Mary McLeod Bethune (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site commemorates the life of Mary McLeod Bethune and the organization she founded, the National Council of Negro ...
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Friends of `Iolani Palace
The only State Residence of Royalty in the United States ...
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Welcome to Lyndhurst
Overlooking the Hudson River in historic Tarrytown NY, Lyndhurst, a country estate built in 1838 for the mayor of New York City and later purchased by railroad titan Jay Gould, is a magnificent Gothic Revival mansion with elaborately decorated rooms holding a wealth of artwork, stained glass and original furnishings.
Preview Site   www.lyndhurst.org/   reviews

Tour Historic Deepwood Estate Museum - Salem, Oregon
Tour Historic Deepwood Estate Museum - Salem, Oregon.
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The McFaddin-Ward House
Built in 1906 in Beaumont, Texas, The McFaddin-Ward House is one of the few remaining Beaux Arts Colonial-style houses in the United States.
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Wenham Museum, how we have lived worked and played
The Wenham Museum provides a look at toys games and costumes from our past.
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Wyckoff House and Association
The Wyckoff House and Association was created to promote interest in Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, his descendants, and in the Wyckoff House Museum located in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn, New York. ...
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Fairfax House, York
Fairfax House is one of the finest eighteenth-century georgian townhouses in England, and is home to the famous Noel Terry collection.
Preview Site   www.fairfaxhouse.co.uk/   reviews

The Huntington Homestead Museum
The Huntington Homestead is the Birthplace of Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is located in Scotland, Connecticut.
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Thomas Edison House, Louisville, KY
Thomas Edison House-- Visit Thomas Edison House and explore Kentuckys connection to Americas most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, who worked in Louisville as a telegrapher. Virtual tour, photos, mp;mp; information on the museum in ca. 1850 house where he lived.
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RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM: Townsend House Museum in Oyster Bay, New York
Ancestral home of the Townsends, Oyster Bay's first family, the house museum sponsors tours, lectures, and research.
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Hermitage Home Page
A Day of Remembrance, September 11 See Calendar for more ...
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Asahel Bush House Museum
Historic Bush House Museum takes visitors back to 19th century Salem, Oregon.
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Wyck-Home Page
Wyck, an historic house museum in the Germantown section of Philadelphia was home to nine generations of the same Quaker family; the Wistars and Haineses, and contains family objects from 1690 to 1973.
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Medwaytowns.com - Eastgate House
Eastgate House is home to the Charles Dickens Centre ...
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The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum
The Eugene Field House Foundation are pleased to bring the message of The Poet of Childhood to the Internet. They seek to continue the legacy begun in 1936with the establishment of the Eugene Field House Museum by the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis, continued by Landmarks Association from 1967-1980, and operated since 1980 by the Eugene Field House Foundation. The Trustees have as ...
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Rancho Camulos Museum - Home Page
The Rancho Camulos Museum, also known as the 'Home of Ramona, ' is Ventura County California's first National Historic Landmark.
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Uniacke Museum Estate Museum Park
Uniacke Estate was the country property of Attorney-General Richard John Uniacke. The house, built 1813-15, with its original furnishings is one of Canada's finest examples of a grand country house in the Georgian tradition. The estate offers visitors a vivid glimpse of 19th-century life among Nova Scotia's gentry. The survival of such a house with its contents is very rare. You can visit the ...
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Wilton House Museum
215 South Wilton Road Richmond, Virginia 23226 ph: 804.282.5936 fax: 804.288.9805 Accredited by the American Association of Museums The History of Wilton House Current Exhibit Calendar of Events School and Scout Programs Group Programs Richmond Pass Admissions, Hours, and Directions This page has had 14362 visitors since June, 2000 Welcome to Wilton House Museum An Architectural Gem Featuring ...
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Keep Homestead Museum
A House Museum in Western Massachusetts with an extensive Button Collection including a permanent exhibit of valuable mosaic buttons, rooms set up to reflect the years that the Keep family lived here, Keep family genealogy, special exhibits ...
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The Wayne County Historical Society and Museum
The Wayne County Historical Society and Museum 546 E. Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio 44691 Phone: (330) 264-8856 Fax: (330) 264-8823 The General Reasin Beall Homestead OUR HISTORY IS IN THE Details At the Wayne County Historical Society and Museum we believe it's the little things that count in bringing history to life: the unique texture of hand-hewn logs, chiseled sandstone and handmade brick, the ...
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Hotel de Paris Museum, Georgetown, Colorado
Visit historic Hotel de Paris Museum in Georgetown, Colorado, established by Frenchman Louis Dupuy in 1875.
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The Earle-Harrison House & Gardens on 5th Street, Waco, Texas
The Earle-Harrison House & Gardens on 5th Street, a historic home and gardens located in Waco, Texas ...
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Eastern Shore of Virginia historic Kerr Place
A beautiful historic federal manor house located in 300-year-old Onancock, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is the location of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society. Eastern Shore history abounds.
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Galena, The Felt Manor Guest House in Historic Galena Illinois ... Bed and Breakfast Inns Galena,
GIFT IDEA A Romantic Felt Manor Get-Away Gift Certificate Certificates Available Afternoon Tea The Rooms The Carriage House Felt Manor Guest House Galena, Illinois (800) 383-2830 The Felt Manor is the French Second Empire mansion overlooking Galena and the surrounding countryside. Built by Lucius Felt in 1848, the inn offers a lovely setting in the heart of Galena's history and charm. Guests ...
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Haliburton House
Haliburton House Windsor, Nova Scotia Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a lawyer, judge, historian and Member of both the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and the British House of Commons, but is best remembered as the author who created Sam Slick, the Yankee clock peddler whose witty sayings are still commonly used. Haliburton's one-and-a-half storey wooden villa, set on a 40-acre estate ...
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The John and Annie Glenn Museum and Exploration Center
Dedicated to telling the story of 20th century American history through the lives of John and Annie Glenn, and to creating educational programs for learners of all ages.
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North Hills Museum
North Hills Museum Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia This small wood-framed house overlooking the Annapolis Basin was once the Rumsey farm and then the Amberman house before Robert Patterson, a retired banker, purchased it, named it North Hills, and filled it with his collection of English furniture, ceramics, silver and Georgian glass. When he died in 1974 Patterson bequeathed both the house and its ...
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Cossit House Museum
The Rev. Mr. Ranna Cossit was the first Anglican minister to live and work in Sydney. He built his house in 1787, and it is believed to be the oldest in Sydney.
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Perkins House
Perkins House Liverpool, Nova Scotia The oldest house in the Nova Scotia Museum collection was built in 1766 for Simeon Perkins, a Connecticut native who came to Nova Scotia in 1762. He became one of Liverpool's leading citizens, a merchant and shipowner whose boats fished off Labrador and traded in the West Indies, a Colonel of the local militia, Judge of Probate, Justice of the Court Common ...
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Prescott House
Prescott House Starrs Point, Nova Scotia Charles Ramage Prescott made his fortune as a Halifax merchant, but earned his lasting reputation as a horticulturalist who introduced better varieties of apples and helped to establish the Fruit Grower's Association. Prescott moved from Halifax to Starr's Point and built this fine Georgian-style home of local brick from 1814-1816. Called Acacia Grove ...
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Old Meeting House
Old Meeting House Barrington, Nova Scotia When the 50 Cape Cod families who founded Barrington Township came together to build a community meeting house in 1765, it served as a religious meeting house for all preachers of the Gospel as well as a place to hold community meetings and elections. Eventually the townspeople built a courthouse, and most religious denominations in the community ...
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Ross-Thomson House & Store Museum
Visit Nova Scotia's only 18th-century store, greet the clerk, and step up to a store counter stocked with the kind of goods George and Robert Ross bartered and sold in the 1780s.
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Shand House
Shand House Windsor, Nova Scotia When the Shand family built this ornate late-Victorian house in 1890-91, it was the latest thing. It had central heating, closets, electric lighting and even indoor plumbing. Climb the tower steps to get a panoramic view of the river where large vessels lay alongside the wharves, when Windsor was a major shipping and manufacturing town. Most of the things ...
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Ascott House. A National Trust Garden and Property
Ascott House, A National Trust Garden and Property set in the heart of Rural Bedfordshire ...
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MacDonald House Museum - Lake Ainslie Historical Society
Bring history to life at MacDonald House, visit Cape Breton and see Lake Ainslie, Canada ...
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Josephine County Historical Society - Historic Schmidt House
The Josephine County Historical Society Schmidt House It is the heart felt desire of the Josephine County Historical Society to continue the preservation of the history of Josephine County and Southern Oregon. The Society has received many donations, the most famous of which is a collection of oriental art and a sum of money by Col. LeRoy Heston in his will in 1982. The Schmidt House was donated ...
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McCulloch House
McCulloch House Pictou, Nova Scotia The Reverend Thomas McCulloch founded Pictou Academy, became the first president of Dalhousie College, and is remembered as the father of liberal education in Nova Scotia. McCulloch House, built about 1806, contains one room furnished as his parlour/study and several pieces of his furniture are on display in the room. Look for a signed Audubon print, called ...
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Sand Historic House - Homepage
Historic house and garden, situated in the picturesque regency seaside resort of Sidmouth.
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Philip Porcher House - Charleston, South Carolina - Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE - Travel * Lodging
Philip Porcher House is a circa 1770 Georgian style home located in the heart of the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina.
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VPA - Historic House Museums in Ohio
The Victorian Preservation Association's guide to historic house museums in Ohio.
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Betsy Ross House - History - Are We There Yet
The home of Betsy Ross and where she made the first American flag.
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Bonelli House - Arizona Mohave Museum
A description and photos of the restored and preserved Bonelli House, Kingman, Arizona, constructed in 1915.
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Firle Place,Firle,E.Sussex.Firle Place an Historic House,home to the Gage family for over 500 yrs.
Firle Place is an Historic House located on the outskirts of Firle, a tiny village in East Sussex. Firle Place has an oustanding Art Collection and is open to the public in the Summer.
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McLoughlin House National Historic Site
McLoughlin House National Historic Site When Dr. John McLoughlin retired from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1845, he paid his former employers $20, 000 for title to the land that he had claimed in Oregon City on the Company's behalf in 1829. He built an elegant home at the south end of town, near the falls, and lived there until his death in 1857. In 1909, the house was rescued from encroaching ...
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Montauk Historical Site - Clermont, Iowa
Montauk - Historical Site - Larrabee Family Welcome to the Site of William Larrabee's Historical Home in Clermont, Iowa...... PO Box 372 &nbsp (563) 423-7173 Clermont, Iowa 52135 Updated 7/31/02 - Click here for what's new Montauk@acegroup.cc Sign Our Guestbook Click Here for information on a Montauk Centennial Celebration This site is maintained by family members and has no affiliation with the ...
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RICHARD SALTER STORRS HOUSE - 1786
Richard Salter Storrs House , 1786, Historic Houses in Massachusetts, 17th and 18th century houses. See antiques in their traditional environment.
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