The Tom Thumb House is a historic house in Middleborough, Massachusetts. The 21⁄2 story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s as a summer home for the dwarf entertainer Charles Stratton, best known
Tom Thumb House, Middleborough, MA
Lavinia Warren
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Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton, known professionally as Lavinia Warren, was an American circus performer with proportionate dwarfism. She performed under the management of P. T. Barnum, toured in the U
Tom Thumb House (Middleborough, Massachusetts)
…in the cornice, and paired columns supporting the porch. The interior was built to meet the needs of the 3-foot-4-inch (102 cm) Stratton and his wife Lavinia, who was also a proportionate dwarf (midget,) however, few of its miniaturized features have survived. The house was added to the National Register of…
Lavinia Warren c. 1860
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The purported baby of Lavinia Stratton and her husband General Tom Thumb