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Clifton is a three-bay, brick
house built in the early 1800's listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. The original Grand Palladian window is the house's most noticeable
feature. The house was originally built in the shape of a three-story
cube, with a front hall extending the width of the house, and two large main
rooms overlooking the Manokin River. This floor plan is the same on three
floors, with charges on the top floor. The floor plan is similar to that
of the Teackle Mansion in Princess Anne, and Elmwood across the Manokin River as
well.
By the turn of the 20th century,
the house was in a sad state of disrepair, and was used for hay storage.
The two side wings were added in the 1930's when the house was "Georgianized,"
copying Georgian molding of a Somerset House in the American Wing at the
Metropolitan Museum in New York!
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