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This house was built in 1807
and named for Monsieur Louis Sansay, a French dancing master, who brought
gracious manners to town by directing a popular dancing school in his home.
His house was the site of an elegant, men-only dinner, held in honor of
a Revolutionary hero, the Marquis de Lafayette. Later, after Rev. Albert
Barnes (Presbyterian Church on the Green) denounced the "sin" of dancing
in one of his sermons, Sansay's dancing school went bankrupt. The dance
master left Morristown and was never heard from again. |
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