Thomas Dodge Homestead is a historic home in Port Washington,

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. It is a settlement-era farmhouse dated to 1721 with additions completed in approximately 1750 and 1903. It is a -story, L-shaped, heavy timber-frame building sheathed with natural cedar wood shingles. The main block has a saltbox shape and there is a nearly square, -story gable-roofed wing. Also on the property are a contributing barn (1880),

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(1886),

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, and shed. ''See also:'' It is operated as a historic house museum by the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, which has its headquarters in the Sands-Willets Homestead, another

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. Thomas Dodge Homestead was listed on the

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in 1986.

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Thomas Dodge Homestead (Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society website)
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