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This museum is a 57-room eight-sided mansion with rudimentary forms of running water, A/C and central heating. Also on the grounds is America's First Kindergarten, founded in 1856.

Exhibits

Visitors will see furnishings found in a 19th Century home, along with items relating to Watertown history, fashions and playthings of a by-gone era and ethnic heritage exhibits.

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