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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: February 20, 2009
Caption: Saint Paul's Rectory (1790)
Additional Description: Built 1790 In 1864 Captain Julian McAllister purchased a typical New England saltbox home that had been built in 1790 in Torrington, Connecticut. He had it dismantled and shipped around the Horn to San Francisco. From the Bay, it was floated by barge on the Carquinez Strait to Benicia and reassembled at its present site. Source: Historic Benicia Walking Tour brochure.
Submitted: February 21, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p53615
File Size: 2.854 Megabytes

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