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Mount, William Sydney, House

Stony Brook, New York
County of Suffolk.
National Register Number: 66000575
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Domestic - single dwelling.
Certified Local Government: NO

Statement of Significance (as of designation - December 21, 1965):
Mount (1807-68) produced most of his genre paintings in this large farmhouse. His genre scenes reflect his individualism, insistence on realistic portrayals, and his reliance on his own region and its people for subject matter.


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