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Ashington, who announced a $ 150 million project called Stonington Malvern, a 75-dwelling development in four precincts, comprising 31 terrace houses, 18 townhomes, 14
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in 1901, before eventually being purchased by the state, along with all its contents, in 1928. The house was maintained as
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