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Remnants of Washington's house found near Liberty Bell

PHILADELPHIA -- Archeologists digging at a site where George Washington and his slaves once lived have unearthed portions of the ''President's House'', a long-shot discovery that is already changing ideas about how the house was built.

Officials from Independence National Historical Park and the city announced Wednesday that a section of the kitchen wall as well the foundation walls from the main house had been unearthed at the site, about a block from Independence Mall.

Documentation about the house had led archaeologists to believe it had a one-story kitchen, but this week's find shows that a basement lay below the kitchen, possibly for storage, officials said.

The work is being done before construction of a new monument where the President's House once stood, intended to commemorate the daily life of the two presidents who lived there as well as the lives of the slaves.
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