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Another of the houses built by Gurdon Smith on Pratt Street in Essex is this one dating to 1834. The house was later owned by Richard Sill Hayden and passed to his son, Gilbert Burnet Hayden, who was a lighthouse keeper in Essex and died in 1929.

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Smith-Hayden House (1834)