Thornton House is a historic house in

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Thomas Redman Thornton (1769–1826) constructed the house around 1790 at

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. The house was moved in the late 1960s by the Atlanta Art Association to a location behind the

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. Then the house was moved again in 1968 for final reconstruction in

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