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ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

This Greek Revival style house is ornamented with cornice returns in the gable end, which faces the street in the traditional manner of that style. The small worker's cottage was also built on a granite foundation, as was common in Rockland for houses of every size.

The earliest know owner of this house was Samual Sharp, who is listed on the 1848 map. An earlier house on this site burned in 1832. By 1857 Phillip McGovern owned the house. He continued to live here for the rest of the nineteenth century, the property being deeded to his heirs around 1990. McGovern was a "treer" by profession.

Map of Rockland, 1874, 1903.                                     Rockland Directory, 1884                                                     Maps of Abington, 1830,1884.                                       Map of Plymouth Country, 1857                                            Abington Directory, 1867                                                    Cyrus Nash Paper, 1832:18

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