Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House in Newtown, Connecticut, also known as James Thurber House, is a Georgian style house built in 1800. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The house is located in the Sandy Hook section of the town, east of the main village center.The house is a large, rural Georgian style farmhouse built for a prosperous farmer named Thomas Sanford.The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home. It was ostensibly a place where Althea could have dogs, and the family dogs inspired and appeared in Thurber's humorous sketches in The New Yorker magazine.. }
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- Sanford-Curtis-Thurber_House abstract "The Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House in Newtown, Connecticut, also known as James Thurber House, is a Georgian style house built in 1800. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The house is located in the Sandy Hook section of the town, east of the main village center.The house is a large, rural Georgian style farmhouse built for a prosperous farmer named Thomas Sanford.The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home. It was ostensibly a place where Althea could have dogs, and the family dogs inspired and appeared in Thurber's humorous sketches in The New Yorker magazine.".