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W.H. Morgan House

single-family detached home in Peabody, Kansas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7945210 ↗
Source-derived summary

W.H. Morgan House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Peabody, Kansas.

It was built in about 1881. It is a two-story Italianate-style house with clapboard siding on a limestone block

foundation, with a hipped roof.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “W.H. Morgan House” is single-family detached home in Peabody, Kansas. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Morgan, House and single-family, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1996, 1881—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1881. For this dossier, Morgan, House and single-family is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7945210. Authority coordinates are 38.167, -97.106. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1881.

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This entry incorporates text from “W.H. Morgan 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.