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... that the farmhouse (pictured) at Lynfeld in Washington, New York, is built in a rough "C" shape, an unusual configuration for an Italianate-style building?
... that Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River?
... that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever's design?

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