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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1795/12/17 Samuel Moody Died Samuel Moody dies at the home (lost) of a former student, Dr Samuel Tenney of Exeter, at the age of seventy. Mr Moody s buried in York, Maine. A rubbing of his headstone in the Archives The Governor's Academy.
1798/00/00 Ebenezer Clifford Architect Master carpenter Ebenezer Clifford and Bradbury Johnson build a residence for Judge and Mrs Semuel Tenney on Front Street, just north of the First Parish meetinghouse.
1798/00/00 Bradbury Johnson Architect Doric pilasters and a triangular pediment fram the doorway. The typanum is decorated with applied wooden tracery adapted from Plate XIV of William Pain's "The Practical Builder". An incised guilloche on the soffit of the doorway is from the same book.

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Particulars for Samuel Tenney House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Criteria Exemplar
Area of Significance Health-medicine
Area of Significance Law, Legal System
Area of Significance Literature
Attribute Moved property
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 80000306
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Clifford,Ebenezer; Johnson,Bradbury
Architectural Style: No style listed
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Health-medicine, Literature, Law, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Moved property
Period of Significance: 1750-1799, 1800-1824
Significant Year: c 1798
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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