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Lack of money, interest leaves a house divided

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19990110
Author:Meadow Rue Merrill, Globe Correspondent

BRUNSWICK, Maine -- The house in which a little lady sat and wrote a book that started a big war was filled last week with news cameras and lights, business people and gawkers, all wondering what will happen now that it is up for auction.

Set in the shadow of Bowdoin College just off one of the town's most historic streets, the white clapboard Greek Revival is where Harriet Beecher Stowe is said to have written some of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Now a rundown restaurant and hotel, the property is owned by Robert Mathews, a resident of nearby Cundy's Harbor.

Mathews was in the middle of renovating ...

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