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{{Short description|Rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts, US}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox station
 | name=Davis
 | style=MBTA |style2=Red
 | image=Davis MBTA Red Line Station, November 2025.jpg
 | image_caption=A southbound train entering Davis station in November 2025
 | address=[[Davis Square|College Avenue and Elm Street]]
 | borough=[[Somerville, Massachusetts]]
 | coordinates = {{coord|42.3969|-71.1225|type:railwaystation_region:US-MA |display=inline,title}}
 | line=[[Red Line Northwest Extension]]
 | other={{ric|MBTA|Bus|name=y}}: {{MBTA bus links|Davis}}
 | platform=1 [[island platform]]
 | tracks=2
 | bicycle=165 spaces in "[[Pedal and Park]]" bicycle cage
 | passengers=11,442 (weekday average boardings)<ref name=fy2019counts>{{cite web |url=https://mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/mbta-ridership-guide |title=A Guide to Ridership Data |publisher=MassDOT/MBTA Office of Performance Management and Innovation |date=June 22, 2020 |page=6}}</ref>
 | pass_year=FY2019
 | opened=1870 (former station)<br>December 8, 1984 (MBTA)
 | closed=April 24, 1927 (former station)
 | former=West Somerville
 | rebuilt=
 | structure=Underground
 | accessible=yes
 | services= {{Adjacent stations|system=MBTA|line=Red|left=Alewife|right=Porter}}
 | mapframe = yes
 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|MBTA|Red}}
 | mapframe-marker = rail-underground
 | mapframe-zoom = 12
}}

'''Davis station''' is an underground [[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority]] (MBTA) [[Red Line (MBTA)|Red Line]] rapid transit station located at [[Davis Square]] in [[Somerville, Massachusetts]]. The [[accessible]] station has a single [[island platform]] for the Red Line, as well as a dedicated busway on the surface. It opened in 1984 as part of the [[Red Line Northwest Extension]] project.

==Station design==
[[File:Davis Square busway and east headhouse August 2024 3.jpg|thumb|left|The east headhouse and busway]]
The station has a single underground [[island platform]], oriented approximately east-west under Davis Square. It has two brutalist concrete headhouses – at College Avenue on the east side of the square, and at Holland Street on the west side. A fare mezzanine running the length of the station connects the two headhouses and the platform. A skylight in the plaza provides natural light to the mezzanine. The station is accessible, with elevators connecting the mezzanine to the platform and the College Avenue headhouse.<ref name=march2022 />

An off-street busway served by {{MBTA bus links/count|Davis|lower}} [[MBTA bus]] routes – {{MBTA bus links|Davis|yes}} – is located next to the east headhouse. Inbound buses on routes that do not terminate at Davis do not use the busway; they instead stop on surface streets near the station entrances.{{MBTA bus links/mapcite}} A "[[Pedal and Park]]" bicycle cage is located east of the east headhouse.
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==History==
===Railroad station===
The first transit service to what would become [[Davis Square]]{{efn|The junction of Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and Holland Street would not be designed as Davis Square until 1883.{{refn|name=innovation|{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/11/18/history-innovation-the-story-davis-square/acWT4CsLONgofKSGz69zZO/story.html |title=A history of innovation -- The story of Davis Square |date=November 18, 2019 |newspaper=Boston Globe |access-date=April 17, 2021}}}}}} was a horsecar line to [[Union Square, Somerville]] via Elm Street and Somerville Avenue, which was opened by the Somerville Horse Railroad (later part of the [[Cambridge Railroad]]) in 1858 and extended to [[Lechmere Square]] in 1864.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/?a=d&d=Chronicle19080718-01.2.94&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |title=This week in Cambridge fifty years ago |date=July 18, 1908 |newspaper=Cambridge Chronicle |page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/somervilleshisto00ellirich/page/40/ |title=Somerville's History |page=40 |last=Elliot |first=Charles Darwin |year=1894 |publisher=<!-- Citation bot adds wrong publisher--> |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=busreport />{{rp|205}} Its carhouse was located on Dover Street just west of Elm Street.<ref name=1874map /> A second route to Lechmere Square was opened in 1888 by successor [[West End Street Railway]] and electrified on July 14, 1894; the Elm Street route was electrified on November 23, 1895.<ref name=busreport />{{rp|205}} Clarendon Hill Carhouse opened on August 8, 1896, replacing the Dover Street facility.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/inventoryofweste01west/page/n550 |page=271 |title=Inventory of the West End Street Railway Company |publisher=West End Street Railway Company |year=1897}}</ref><ref name=busreport />{{rp|205}} The two routes were converted to trolleybus on November 8, 1941, and to bus on March 31, 1963; the Elm Street line is now [[87 (MBTA bus)|route 87]] and the Highland Avenue line [[88 (MBTA bus)|route 88]].<ref name=busreport>{{Humphrey Bus Report|page=205}}</ref>
[[File:West Somerville station, December 1903.jpg|thumb|left|West Somerville station in 1903]]
When opened in 1846, the [[Lexington Branch]] split from the [[Fitchburg Railroad]] at [[Alewife station#Railroads|West Cambridge]]. In 1870, the [[Boston and Lowell Railroad]] (B&L) bought the Lexington Branch to prevent it from becoming a competitor.<ref name=sne>{{cite book |title=The Rail Lines of Southern New England |edition=2 |last=Karr |first=Ronald Dale |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780942147124 |pages=}}</ref>{{rp|278}} The B&L built [[Fitchburg Cutoff|a cutoff]] from {{bts|Lake Street|Lexington}} to [[Somerville Junction]], which opened on December 1, 1870.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jkjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA122 |magazine=American Railroad Journal |page=122 |volume=27 |issue=5 |date=February 4, 1871 |title=Boston and Lowell Railroad |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QvoVAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA780 |page=780 |volume=30: Valuation Reports |year=1931 |title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States |chapter=Boston and Maine Railroad |via=Google Books |publisher=Interstate Commerce Commission}}</ref> Among the stations on the line was '''Elm Street''', located in the triangle between Elm Street (now College Avenue) and Holland Street.<ref name=1874map>{{cite book |url=https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:tt44pw653 |title=Atlas of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts : from actual surveys and official records |year=1874 |publisher=G.M. Hopkins & Co. |pages=44–45 |chapter=Plate K |via=Norman B. Leventhal Map Center}}</ref> In January 1876, [[William Robinson (inventor)|William Robinson]] installed one of the first test applications of his [[track circuit]] signaling system on the line between Elm Street and North Avenue. On June 14, 1876, [[Pedro II of Brazil]] travelled to Elm Street station to view the system.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/inventionoftrack00newyrich/page/18/mode/2up |title=The Invention of the Track Circuit |date=1922 |publisher=American Railway Association |pages=18–21 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |jstor=43525154 |title=William Robinson, Railroad Signal Innovator |journal=Railroad History |issue=203 |date=Fall–Winter 2010 |pages=51–55 |publisher=Railway & Locomotive Historical Society |first=Donald F. |last=Morrison}}</ref>

The [[Massachusetts Central Railroad]] began service on October 1, 1881; it used most of the 1870-built cutoff to reach Boston.<ref name=secondsection>{{cite book |title=Boston's Commuter Rail: Second Section |last1=Humphrey |first1=Thomas J.|last2=Clark |first2=Norton D. |publisher=Boston Street Railway Association |year=1986 |isbn=9780938315025 |page=12}}</ref><ref name=sne />{{rp|216}} Operations were suspended from 1882 to 1884; it was leased by the B&L in 1886.<ref name=sne />{{rp|216}} The station was renamed to '''West Somerville''' in the mid-1880s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75919632/the-boston-globe/ |title=Auction Sales |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=May 20, 1883 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75919626/the-boston-globe/ |title=Auction Sales |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=June 18, 1884 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75919689/the-boston-globe/ |title=Records Reduced |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=September 27, 1885 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The B&L was acquired by the [[Boston and Maine Railroad]] (B&M) in 1887.<ref name=sne />{{rp|280}} The streetcar and railroad service stimulated substantial development in the 1870s and 1880s as Davis Square quickly grew into an active commercial center. A boom in residential construction followed in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/DavisToPowderHouseWalkingTour.pdf |title= College Avenue, Gateway to West Somerville – From Davis Square to the Medford Line |last1= Gordon |first1= Edward |date= Fall 2006 |publisher= Chapter of Victoria Society of America  |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131213064543/http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/DavisToPowderHouseWalkingTour.pdf |archive-date= December 13, 2013 }}</ref>

The city proposed to eliminate the grade crossings on the line, including the pair of College Avenue and Holland Street at Davis Square, in the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75982122/the-boston-globe/ |title=To Abolish Grade Crossings |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=December 27, 1903 |page=35 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Most grade crossings on the Fitchburg Railroad mainline were eliminated over the next decade, but those on the Lexington Branch cutoff were not.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73834857/the-boston-globe/ |title=Two Somerville Grade Crossing Improvements Nearly Complete |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=December 16, 1912 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> On January 31, 1915, the West Somerville station building was moved west of Holland Street at the request of the mayor to improve conditions in the square.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75984437/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=October 22, 1914 |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75984434/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=February 1, 1915 |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> By this time, the station was often called '''Davis Square''', though its official name remained West Somerville.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75920632/the-boston-globe/ |title=Saved From Death as Train is Flagged |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=October 21, 1920 |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75920751/the-boston-globe/ |title=Rob Davis-Sq, B. & M. Station Safe of $285 |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=March 31, 1918 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title-link=:commons:File:Boston and Maine Railroad 1917 timetable.pdf |title=Local Train Service |date=September 30, 1917 |publisher=Boston and Maine Railroad |pages=33–34 |via=Wikimedia Commons}}</ref> The B&M discontinued ticket and baggage service at the station in 1924.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75920652/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=December 19, 1924 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In 1926–27, as part of construction of a new centralized freight yard in Somerville, the B&M built two new sections of track which allowed the Lexington Branch and the Central Massachusetts Railroad to use the Fitchburg mainline east of [[Alewife Brook Parkway]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52368019/the-boston-globe/ |title=Two Railroad Lines Being Built by B. & M. for Total of Two Miles |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=October 28, 1926 |page=36 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> On April 24, 1927, passenger service was rerouted over the rebuilt line; North Cambridge, West Somerville, and Somervile Highlands stations were closed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52368106/the-boston-globe/ |title=Train Diversion Starts April 24th |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=April 16, 1927 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> Although residents were opposed to the closures, the B&M wished to avoid the grade crossings on the line, which had seen 70 crashes in the past six years.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75920707/the-boston-globe/ |title=Protest Giving Up 3 Stations |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=November 10, 1926 |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The old line through Davis Square became the freight-only [[Fitchburg Cutoff]]; it was rebuilt with heavier rails to handle heavy freights headed to and from the new Somerville freight yard.<ref name=history /> The abandoned station was damaged by fire on June 12, 1929, and again during a riot on July 4, 1938.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36818799/the_boston_globe/ |title=Somerville Crowd Battles Firemen |date=July 5, 1938 |newspaper=Boston Globe |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75920736/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=June 13, 1929 |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> It is no longer extant.<ref name=depots>{{cite book |title=A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses |last=Roy |first=John H. Jr. |publisher=Branch Line Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780942147087 |page=115}}</ref> In 1935, the city requested that the line be grade-separated as part of a [[Works Progress Administration]]-funded grade crossing elimination program.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75981676/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=June 11, 1935 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> However, the grade crossings were not eliminated; crashes and stalled freight trains continued to be a problem in the square.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75981895/the-boston-globe/ |title=Train Breaks Down, Auto Traffic Stalled |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=December 23, 1946 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75981910/the-boston-globe/ |title=Disabled Freight Delays Traffic on Massachusetts Av. |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=January 28, 1942 |page=23 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75981943/the-boston-globe/ |title=Somerville Car Goes Through RR. Gates |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=August 23, 1937 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

===Red Line station===
[[File:Davis station under construction, 1983.jpg|thumb|left|Davis station under construction in 1983]]
In the 1970s, local officials and citizen groups successfully petitioned the [[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority]] to create a Red Line subway stop in Somerville at Davis Square. Freight service over the Fitchburg Cutoff through Davis Square, which had been reduced in the mid-1970s, ended entirely in April 1980.<ref name=history>{{cite book |url=https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/6%20Community%20Path.pdf |chapter=Determination of Historic Significance For Historic Resource Projects Funded through the Community Preservation Act |date=October 17, 2015 |first=John Alan |last=Roderick |title=Preservation. Rehabilitation, Restoration and Improvements to the Somerville Community Path |publisher=City of Somerville, Massachusetts |pages=1, 2}}</ref> Davis station opened on December 8, 1984, spurring major development and revitalization of the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x1716633094/Column-Davis-Square-design-in-Somerville-will-be-community-driven |title=Column: Davis Square design in Somerville will be community-driven |last1=Curtatone |first1=Joe |last2=Gewirtz |first2=Rebekah |date=June 7, 2013 |publisher=Wicked Local Somerville |access-date=December 7, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213075235/http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x1716633094/Column-Davis-Square-design-in-Somerville-will-be-community-driven |archive-date=December 13, 2013 }}</ref><ref name=innovation />

Davis and Porter were the first MBTA subway stations made accessible during initial construction, rather than by renovation.<ref name=bluebook1990>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ridershipservice990mass |edition=3 |title=Ridership and Service Statistics |date=November 1990 |pages=1–4 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |author=Operations Directorate Planning Division |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=2007doc>{{cite web |url=https://old.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Accessibility/final%20report%20082407%20on%20CD.pdf |title=Evaluation of MBTA Paratransit and Accessible Fixed Route Transit Services: Final Report |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |author=Tran Systems and Planners Collaborative |date=August 24, 2007}}</ref> In June 1993, Margaret McCarthy, a blind woman, fell off the platform and was killed by electrocution by the third rail. McCarthy was an advocate for adding [[tactile paving|tactile warning strips]] to the edges of station platforms; her death prompted the MBTA to finally install warning strips at all subway stations.<ref name=durso>{{cite thesis |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/66801 |title=Subway Spaces as Public Places: Politics and Perceptions of Boston's T |last=Durso |first=Holly Bellocchio |date=June 2011 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |type=MCP |pages=37–38|hdl=1721.1/66801 }}</ref>

A $6.6 million design contract was awarded in April 2020 for accessibility improvements at Davis and {{bts|Broadway}}.<ref name=contract /><ref name=march2022 /> Initial plans called for two new surface elevators and two new platform elevators, and to add new walkways on the mezzanine level to connect the elevators.<ref name=contract>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020-04-13-fmcb-19-architectural-engineering-services-station-accessibility-improvements-accessible.pdf |title=MBTA Contract Nos. A90PS02, A90PS04, & A90PS05: Architectural and Engineering Services for Station and Accessibility Improvements |first=John |last=Schwarz |date=April 13, 2020 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}</ref> Design reached 30% in 2021; by that time, the project scope had been changed to add replacement of two existing elevators, and to only add one new platform elevator.<ref name=swadec2021>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2021-12/2021-12-03-swa-initiatives.pdf |title=System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—December 2021 |date=December 2021 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility |page=10}}</ref> Design work reached 75% completion in 2022 and was nearly complete by November 2023.<ref name=swadec2022>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022-12-7-swa-initiatives-report-december-accessible.pdf |title=System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—December 2022 |date=December 6, 2022 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility |page=9}}</ref><ref name=march2022>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/2022-03-28-davis-station-accessibility-improvements-overview-30-percent-design.pdf |title=Davis Station Accessibility Improvements: Recorded Project Overview – 30% Design |date=March 2022 |first=Eitan |last=Normand |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}</ref><ref name=swanov2023>{{cite web |url=https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-11/2023-11-27-accessibility-initiatives.pdf |title=System-Wide Accessibility Initiatives—November 2023 |date=November 27, 2023 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Department of System-Wide Accessibility |page=10}}</ref>
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==Arts on the Line==
[[File:Sculpture with a D, April 2018.jpg|thumb|right|''Sculpture with a D'' seen in 2018]]
As a part of the [[Red Line Northwest Extension]], Davis was included as one of the stations involved in the [[Arts on the Line]] program. Arts on the Line was devised to bring art into the MBTA's subway stations in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was the first program of its kind in the United States and became the model for similar drives for art across the country.<ref name="Extension">[http://www.davissquaretilesproject.com/artsontheline/pamphlet/5 Red Line Northwest Extension Pamphlet page 5]. The Davis Square Tiles Project. Accessed May 31, 2010</ref>

Four of the original twenty artworks are located at Davis station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/CAC/public_art_tour/map_01.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=August 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024093719/http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/CAC/public_art_tour/map_01.pdf |archive-date=October 24, 2007 }}</ref> These works are:
* ''[[Davis Square statues|Ten Figures]]'' by James Tyler – Life-size people created out of cement, placed in areas around Davis Square
* ''Children's Tile Mural'' by Jack Gregory and Joan Wye – Many tiles created by children placed on the brick wall of the station mezzanine. In 2009, a group of local artists attempted to find as many of the tile-makers as possible. The schoolchildren are now 35–45 years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://davissquaretilesproject.com |title=249 Tiles |publisher=The Davis Square Tiles Project |access-date=March 26, 2012}}</ref>
* ''Poetry'' by various poets – Lines of poems are embedded into bricks on the station platform floor
* ''[[Sculpture with a D]]'' by [[Sam Gilliam]] – A large scale, brightly colored, abstract work<ref name="Davis">[http://www.davissquaretilesproject.com/artsontheline/pamphlet/10-11 Red Line Northwest Extension Pamphlet pages 10-11]. The Davis Square Tiles Project. Accessed May 30, 2010</ref>

Nine panels of [[community art]] were added on the platform level in May 2008.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.mbta.com/news/2008-05-06/mbta-city-somerville-tufts-university-officially-unveil-community-art-davis-square |title=MBTA, City of Somerville, Tufts University Officially Unveil Community Art at Davis Square Station |date=May 6, 2008 |publisher=Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority}}</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-davis MBTA – Davis]
*[https://www.mbta.com/projects/elevator-accessibility-upgrades MBTA – Elevator Accessibility Upgrades]
*Google Maps Street View: [https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3970534,-71.1229455,3a,75y,239.85h,84.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_342cU8FJaFgS7yzEckvyw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 west headhouse], [https://www.google.com/maps/@42.396714,-71.1221744,3a,75y,86.98h,84.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTuoJwi60p8bH5AbPLfED5g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 east headhouse]

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