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Dolph Manning’s horse winds a turnstile pulling a building along Water Street, Vineyard Haven. The building was moved from the rear of Cronig’s Market on Church Street, to the corner of what’s now the post office parking lot at Five Corners. Manning’s home was on Water Street, just off the frame to the left, on the site now occupied by Stop & Shop as a storage building. Photo by Basil Welch. The late Basil Welch recalled Manning’s employer, Harry Horton: “Harry used to move houses. And he moved a lot of houses. The biggest fault I ve got to find with Harry is he never took any pictures of the houses he moved! In our collection of pictures we are fortunate enough to have one little set of pictures of Harry moving what used to be Mike Fontes paint shop, across Water Street and with the horse and the turnstile. I took those pictures myself when I worked at Dukes County Garage, and boy I ll never be sorry that I took ‘em, b