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Old 06-25-2008, 12:42 PM   #4
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The mansion on Governor's Island was built in the 1880s by Stilson Hutchins of Washington DC, the founder of the Washington Post. He leased it in the early 1900s to the Germany embassy for use as a summer place. The Hutchkins family sold the mansion in the late 1920s and it burned down in 1934.

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