Mount Airy, also known as the Grandma Moses House and Major James Crawford House, is a historic home located at

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. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, single-pile brick

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. It has a rear -story, brick ell addition with porch built about 1850. Also on the property are a contributing washhouse (c. 1900), shed (c. 1900), and wagon house (c. 1921). The American artist

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(1860–1961) and her husband Thomas Solomon Moses owned the house from January 1901 to September 1902. It was the first house they owned in their married lives. an
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in 2012.

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