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Nathaniel Dyer House

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The Nathaniel Dyer House is an historic house at 168 York Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1803, it is one of the city's oldest surviving brick houses, rare for the building material and for its scale, which is for a middle-class family of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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Nathaniel Dyer House
York Street, Portland

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York Street 191
04102 Portland
Maine, United States
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