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716 Main Street

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1894

This yellow brick house presents a huge, pedimented front to the street. Brickwork, especially notable in courses surrounding an oval window on the second floor, is superbly executed. On the northern side of the house, an elaborate frame bay, corbeled out from ground level, contains the stairway.

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S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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S. Allen Chambers Jr., "716 Main Street", [Sistersville, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-TY4.1.

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