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- 1 2 3 "Appleton-Parker House and Women's City Club of Boston 1913–1992". theclio.com. 19 March 2018.
- ↑ Gdula, Steven (2008). The warmest room in the house: How the kitchen became the heart of the twentieth-century American home. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 28.
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