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Town Doctors' House and Site

Colonial house and archaeological site, New York

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Town Doctors' House and Site is a historic home located at Southold in Suffolk County, New York. The house was built about 1720, and expanded in about 1880, 1930, and 2002–2003. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story, northern-Colonial–style building with a cross-gabled roof and central chimney. The site includes Bilberry Swamp, where the earliest Euro-American occupation occurred around 1664. There is evidence on the site of pre-17th-century occupation by Native Americans. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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Earliest Euro-American occupation

c. 1664

House construction

c. 1720

19th-century expansion

c. 1880

20th-century alteration

c. 1930

21st-century renovation

2002–2003

National Register listing

2005

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Coordinates

41.06° N, -72.44° E