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Mansion demolition order has Truro residents debating

House changes vista that Edward Hopper painted

By Brian MacQuarrie

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 03, 2012

The biggest house in Truro, a $10 million glass-and-concrete mansion only recently completed, has been ordered demolished by the town. The home, on a ridge overlooking Cape Cod Bay, obscures part of the famed Hopper Landscape where the artist painted for decades. The reason for the demolition: The home does not qualify as an allowed “alteration’’ to a small home that sits a good distance away on the property owned by a Boca Raton widow.

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