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A large white two and a half story house with an open porch supported by four columns, topped by a balustrade to form a balcony

... that the hunting lodge at Bykenhulle (pictured) in East Fishkill, New York, can be entered only by turning a carved liquor bottle on the door to "pour" into a nearby shot glass, revealing a peephole?
... that Richard Upjohn's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House, the oldest in Garrison, New York, were removed by a later owner?
... that the landmark libel case People v. Croswell was tried at the First Columbia County Courthouse in Claverack, New York?

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