Eli Hoyle House is a historic

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located near

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. It was built about 1830–1833, and is a two-story, five bay,

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-style frame dwelling. It has a side-gable roof, exterior brick end chimneys, and sits on a stone foundation. It was built by Eli Hoyle (1801–1844), great-grandson of Pieter Hieyl who built the nearby Hoyle Historic Homestead. It was listed on the

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in 1998.

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