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fieldstone and replacement concrete piers. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on the ground floor, three windows in the half-story, and a fourth window near the gable peak. A wooden flagpole is mounted below the topmost window, extending upward in front of it and beyond the gable ridge. The interior of the building has a large meeting space taking up the first floor, and two rooms on the second. Next to the town house stands a small gabled building that once served as a "hearse house", for storage of the town
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The town house was built in 1869 at a cost of $ 895, replacing an 1828 town house that had been located nearby. The upper level of the building is a relative oddity in Maine's 19th-century town houses, and was apparently rented out to fraternal organizations and used for one season for high school
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The Jefferson Town House is located on the western edge of the dispersed rural village center of Jefferson, on the north side of SR 126 (Gardiner Road) at its junction with SR 213. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a steep gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of original
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classes. It was leased to the local historical society in 1962, which has taken care of it since.
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Jefferson Town House is located in Maine
Jefferson Town House is located in the United States
Jefferson, Maine
44°12′2″N 69°29′6″W / 44.20056°N 69.48500°W / 44.20056; -69.48500
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Jefferson, Maine
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