Gallison Hall is a historic home located near

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. It was designed by the architect Stanhope Johnson in the

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style, and built between 1931 and 1933. It consists of a 2½-story, five-bay, brick center section with a steeply pitched hipped roof, flanked by -story, three-bay, gable-roofed wings connected by hyphens. At each end are a seven-bay brick arcades connected to a -story two-bay gable-roofed garage on the east and an identical arcade connected to an octagonal

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brick on the west. The house is set among English gardens designed by Charles F. Gillette. an
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in 1990.

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