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Stotham
Stotham is a fictional town in Massachusetts, United States which was invented by architect Hubert G. Ripley (1869–1942) of the firm Ripley and LeBoutillier in an article he wrote for the April 1920 issue (vol. VI, No. 2) of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs as the purported locale of a number of photographs of New England structures which had been edited out of earlier location-specific issues of the bi-monthly series. Ripley's article about the town was printed under an epigram from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. The introduction presented a description of the character and history of Stotham invented by Ripley.…
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Stotham is a fictional town in Massachusetts, United States which was invented by architect Hubert G. Ripley (1869–1942) of the firm Ripley and LeBoutillier in an article he wrote for the April 1920 issue (vol. VI, No. 2) of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs as the purported locale of a number of photographs of New England structures which had been edited out of earlier location-specific issues of the bi-monthly series. Ripley's article about the town was printed under an epigram from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. The introduction presented a description of the character and history of Stotham invented by Ripley.…
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