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with a low hip roof. It sits on a foundation finished with rounded cobblestones laid in horizontal rows. The center entrance is surrounded by a sidelight-and-pilaster front entranceway. The house has simple, six-over-six windows and a denticulated entablature. It has a small front porch which may be
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John Gibbs, a craftsman from New York, was born in 1796. He traveled to
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