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93: 262:-story timber-frame cottage, with a gable roof, exterior finished in clapboards (front) and shingles (sides), and brick foundation. It has a four-bay front facade, with the main entrance in the second bay from the left, framed by simple pilasters. The summer house is a single-story timber-frame cottage measuring 13 by 18 feet (4.0 m × 5.5 m), with a gabled roof and shingled exterior. Its front facade has a single sash window and entrance, set in the right half of the facade. A small shed-roof addition extends to one side. 68: 1078: 118: 266: 1090: 622: 1067: 125: 100: 75: 51: 274:
house has erroneously been associated in a HABS survey with an 18th-century individual, David Curran. The summer house is of clearly older construction, and was probably standing on the property when it was purchased by Williams. It is possible this house was used as toolshed or workshop, as it resembles similar period workshops found elsewhere on
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The main house was built sometime after 1817, and is known to have been built by 1851, when the property was sold by Daniel Lombard, its probable builder, to Justun Williams. The house remained in the Williams family into the 20th century, when it was owned for many years by Joseph Ahearn. The
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The Ahearn House and Summer House occupy a single parcel of land on the north side of Pamet Point Road, a rural road in Wellfleet's northwest providing access to the Bound Brook area within
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Ahearn House and Summer House is located in Cape Cod
Ahearn House and Summer House is located in Massachusetts
Ahearn House and Summer House is located in the United States
Cape Cod National Seashore
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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