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Lansdowne House

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The Lansdowne House is a historic house in Greenville, Ohio, United States. Built in 1870, it was the residence of Zachary Lansdowne, who was a pioneer in the development of the U.S. Navy's airship program and commanded the airship Shenandoah. A native of Greenville, Lansdowne attended the United States Naval Academy upon graduating from Greenville High School;Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 306. as Shenandoah's skipper, he was killed in its crash on September 3, 1925.Lansdowne, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Accessed 2010-05-22. Read more on Wikipedia

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