James and Lydia Canning Fuller House

{{short description|Historic house in New York, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = James and Lydia Canning Fuller House

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| image = Fuller house2.jpg

| caption =

| location = W. Genesee St., Skaneateles, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|42|56|41|N|76|26|22|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York#USA

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| mapframe-marker = building

| mapframe-zoom = 12

|mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location for James and Lydia Canning Fuller House

| built = 1815

| architect = Thompson, Peter; Billing, John

| architecture = Federal

| added = July 3, 2003

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500450|title=Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS}}

| refnum = 03000595{{NRISref|2009a}}

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The James and Lydia Canning Fuller House in Skaneateles, New York is a historic house, which on three occasions was used as part of the Underground Railway.[http://pacny.net/freedom_trail/Fuller.htm James and Lydia Canning Fuller House], pacy.net, Retrieved 2 August 2015

James Fuller married Lydia Charleton in 1815 in Bristol at the Friends Meeting House. This was the same year as the house was built.

James Canning Fuller was the secretary of the Skaneateles Anti-Slavery Society in 1838. He was a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840 in London.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/60228328 Delegate List], World Anti Slavery Convention, 1840

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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