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to begin calling himself "architect", and consequently took on more ambitious projects, sometimes selling plans but not executing the commissions himself. He drew a master plan for Bangor's streets, and for
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The Flight of the Grand Eagle: Charles G. Byrant, Maine
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Charles G. Bryant Double House, Division St., 1836 (extant)
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