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The house traditionally known as the Jacob Pledger House, at the northeast corner of Westfield and East Streets in Middletown, was actually built by a prosperous farmer, named James Plumb, in 1804. The attached kitchen wing may have been Plumb’s original dwelling (built in 1740), before he built his early Federal-style mansion house. The house remained in the Plumb and Barry families until 1888 and is still a private residence.

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James Plumb House (1804)