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Subject: Thomas Royal Dake
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 18:40:40 EDT

>From the book I purchased today
Roadside History of Vermont, by Peter S. Jennison
page 192
...after the Revolution, Castleton grew repaidly, and by 1850 there were more
than 3000 inhabitants. The villages "Pillar Town" nickname arose from the
distinguised architecural record left by the gifted Thomas Royal Dake, a
builder who arrived in town around 1807. The first house he built was his
own, on South Street, in 1809. A fine sprial staircase believed to have been
made by Dake may be seen in the Ransom-Rehlen house, a Greek Revival mansion
with 17 ionic colums, built in 1846 from plans smuggled out of England.
Dake's masterpiece, the Federated Church, was designed in similar style with
a colonnade of six Doric colums, and an austere interior except for the
bueatiful pulpit, which Dake completed by hand when the budget was exhausted.

-submitted for those who might be interested.
Carol Bristol

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