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here there once was a pristine example of Queen Ann
Victorian architecture now stands a vacant lot strewn with the
remains of the day. Hundred-year-old bricks and cedar shakes
litter the property. Shards of leaded glass sparkle in the sunlight.
Hand-carved balustrades are spread out like pick-up sticks. As of
December 2013, a mysterious and romantic relic of the Gilded
Age, the Swain House in Spring Lake, was no more.
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1993 watercolor by Theresa Troise Heidel, titled "Street Scene, Spring Lake."