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Abraham Castetter House

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ65069254 ↗
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The Abraham Castetter House is a historic house in Blair, Nebraska. It was built in 1876 for Abraham Castetter, who served as Washington County's county clerk and later founded The Banking House of A. Castetter. The house was designed in the Second Empire and Eclectic architectural styles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 25, 1982.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1876, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1876. For this dossier, Abraham, Castetter and House is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Abraham Castetter House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.