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dining room. To the right of the reception hall it will be a library. The second floor will be devoted to four bedrooms each with a private bath. The new structure will be built of brick, stone and plaster and will be even handsomer than the old Owls Club. There will be no open court as in the present building but there will be a large veranda in front. As soon as the sketches are finished, Messrs. Freeman, Tenney and
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shares in 1912, and lived there himself for a time, eventually passing the house along to nieces and nephews. It was still in his possession when he died in 1944. The Owls club building was later sold several times, and after falling into disrepair, the building was restored in 1986. and was sold to Raul Pina and
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The original building of the Owls had been built in 1894 by "a group of prosperous bachelors who built and lived in an impressive house", and was occupied by those men until it was sold in 1900. The group called themselves the Owls "because the parties would last late into the night". The original
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