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Iranistan
Iranistan
was a
Moorish Revival
mansion
in
Bridgeport, Connecticut
that was commissioned by
P. T. Barnum
in 1848. It was designed by the Austrian-American
architect
Leopold Eidlitz
. At this "beautiful country seat" Barnum played host to such famous contemporaries as the
Hutchinson Family Singers
,
Matthew Arnold
,
George Custer
,
Horace Greeley
, and
Mark Twain
. The grandiose structure survived only a decade before being destroyed by fire in 1857. It was one of five such fires in the showman's life that "burned to the ground all his accomplishments".
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