The same ..'architect..builder'...,credited with building the city's 'City Hall'.......
.built Our Own, #28 Fair Street ,in 1880 to 1885 ,[ approx.].
Mr. John Dixon Johnston , was quite the builder in Newport.........He designed and built over 200 houses in and around the city........He helped draft the city's first building codes.......He was an inventor..........An employer of many , many people.........A lumber mill owner.....and on and on......
From 1875 until the 1920's.....countless papers were saved....chronicling his work in the area........Boxes of drawings were kept and now saved......
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