The Capt. Leonard Tawes House is a historic home located at

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, Somerset County,

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. It is a frame two story house begun in the second quarter of the 19th century and extensively altered in the

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mode through the rest of the century. Also on the property is a garage, a storage shed, a stilted frame dairy, and a

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aest ...

-roofed frame privy. The Capt. Leonard Tawes House was listed on the

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in 1985.

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*, including photo from 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Somerset County, Maryland Crisfield, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Victorian architecture in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub