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| 1804 births | |
| norris, john s. | |
| 1876 deaths | |
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He was born and raised in New York City , where he began his career as a mason. He advanced to being a builder and eventually listed himself in the telephone directory as an architect. He went to Wilmington, Carolina ] in 1839, where he first supervised construction, and then received his first independent commission to design the Wilmington Custom House in 1843. While working on that commission, he was asked to design the Savannah Custom House in and Cockspur Island . He returned to New York before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Six years later, he bought a farm in Blauvelt, in Rockland County, New York, where he lived until his death. |
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