Jamison House
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At the corner of Dekalb and Airy Streets, now the location for Yost Antiques, is the Jamison House. Built in 1850 in the Greek Revival style for William Jamison, son of the founder of Jamison Mills, it originally sported a widow’s walk, stables and outbuildings extending all the way to Green Street. There is a story that the house was originally to be only three stories, but when Mr.Jamison heard of the plans for the vast church tower to be erected across Airy Street, he feared his manse would be dwarfed (as in fact it is)! So he had another story added in such haste that it was one big room. This was used as a ballroom for the rest of the century except when used by the children for rollerskating. |
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