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Blackwell House


Blackwell House
is one of the few farmhouses dating from the years immediately following the Revolutionary War.
It was built in 1794 and is the fifth oldest wooden house surviving in New York City. The pale-blue, two-story clapboard structure, was once home to Roosevelt Island's earliest resident, Robert Blackwell.

 

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