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Florence "Flo" & Katherine "Kay" Lyman, identical twin savants; Cameron Macaulay, a boy from Barra, Scotland who claimed to have memories of a past life as an American airman in World War II; José Mestre, who suffered a huge, life-threatening facial tumor
The estate was established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman on 400 acres (160 ha) of grounds, and was the Lyman family's summer residence for over 150 years. It consisted originally of the mansion and its lawns, gardens, greenhouses, woodlands, a deer park, and a working farm.
The Lyman House Memorial Museum, also known as the Lyman Museum and Lyman House, is a Hilo, Hawaii-based natural history museum founded in 1931 in the Lyman family mission house, originally built in 1838. The main collections were moved to an adjacent modern building in the 1960s, while the house is open for tours as the island's oldest ...
Lyman House may refer to the following houses in the United States: By state, then city/town Lyman House (Asylum Hill, Connecticut) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Hartford County
The Lyman twins also display two characteristics that seem to be defining features of hyperthymestic syndrome; they have an obsessive interest in popular culture and they have an urge to record and/or collect mementos of their obsessive interests.
The Thomas Lyman House is located in a rural setting northwest of Durham center, on the east side of Middlefield Road (Connecticut Route 147) just north of a stream crossing. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with two chimneys, a hip roof and two front dormers, and is oriented facing south. The front entry is sheltered by a small ...
Knollwood was built in the 1910s for industrialist Lyman Gordon (1861-1914), cofounder of Wyman-Gordon, although he died before it was completed. The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stucco construction, topped by a complex hipped tile roof. Its basic form is that of a central block with slightly asymmetrical flanking wings.
Lyman died in 1920, and the house was bought by the Town and County Club in 1925, after his widow died. The house was designed by the Hartford firm of Hapgood & Hapgood, cousins who executed a number of prominent regional landmarks and the Connecticut State Building at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. The principal alteration to the building has ...