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Sleeper was much taken by the location and immediately decided to build a little further along the ledge from Red Roof. He purchased the land on
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that he used in his entrance hall and dining room. He salvaged Gothic windows from a church, various fireplaces and doorways from homes in
Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a 3 and one-eight inch thick "Indian-repelling door" from
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as well as a clothier and manager of a real estate trust. Henry's education appears to have been by private tutors due to ill health as a child, and it is unclear as to whether he was ever formally educated.
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in 2003. In 2008, due to new information on
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Westcott) Sleeper (1837–1917). His elder brothers were Jacob
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American antiquarian and interior decorator (1878-1934)
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