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Peter and Karen McComb House is a historic home located at Poughkeepsie,
Dutchess County, New York Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later orga ...
. It was designed by architect Marcel Breuer and built in 1950–1951. The original section is a small one- to two-story, T-shaped, International style frame dwelling on a
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foundation. Three additions were constructed in 1962, 1988, and 1994. It is built into its site atop a steep rock ridge and features large-scale rectangular window panels. ''Note:'' This includes an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2009.


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Marcel Breuer buildings Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) International style architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1951 Houses in Poughkeepsie, New York National Register of Historic Places in Poughkeepsie, New York {{DutchessCountyNY-NRHP-stub