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Capitol Commissioners Thomas P. Kennard and John Gillespie houses (at right), Lincoln, Nebraska, 1871; view from the first state capitol, looking southeast. Houses designed in 1868 by John Keys Winchell (1841-1877), Architect, Chicago, Illinois




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