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McDonald’s + Historic Preservationists= Circa 1795 Georgian-style Burger Joint (UPDATE)

So, this really exists.  An 18th century farmhouse (dating to 1795) that is now a McDonald’s restaurant on Long Island in NY. As ScoutingNY reports, McDonald’s apparently bought the neglected house in the mid-1980s with the intention of tearing it down to build a new McDonald’s.  Historic preservationists intervened, got the farmhouse declared a landmark, [...] Read story

The Gilbert Mansion in Hamden, Maine has Several Stories. Tales, That Is.HAMMARHEAD INDUSTRIES SETS-UP SHOP IN PHILLY’S BOOMING FISHTOWN

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