Henry Knowles House

Henry Knowles House

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Mid-18th-century. 31 Walnut St. (at Second St.)

This two-story central-chimney gambrel with fanlighted, pedimented door was the childhood home of Matthew Galbraith Perry, future admiral, who “opened” Japan to the West. It is hence sometimes aggrandized as the Perry House.

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