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RECORDED BY: Roger G. Green

ORGANIZATION: Hershensohn & Reed

DATE: April 1981

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Place : Central St.

ADDRESS:  223 Central St.

HISTORIC NAME:  Benjamin Townsend House

USES : Residence

PRESENT: Residence / Private individual Josephine M. Lewis

ORIGINAL: Benjamin Townsend

DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1760

SOURCE: Martha Campbell, R.R. No. 263

STYLE/FORM:  Cape Cod/Georgian Period

ARCHITECT/BUILDER:

EXTERIOR MATERIAL: Shingles

FOUNDATION:  

WALL: Clapboard

ROOF:

OUTBUILDING/SECONDARY STRUCTURES: Shed

MAJOR ALTERATION: Portico added to west front, early 1900's.

CONDITION:

MOVED  NO

ACREAGE:  .5

SETTING: Located on a nineteenth century residential street on the west side of town