| Address: 30 Crescent Street |
Heritage Status: Recognized |
| Built: 1872 |
Builder/Architect: Eli Wamback |
| Style: Greek Revival |
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Architecture:
- Large and impressive gable-roofed Greek Revival house with ell at side
- Noteworthy for having three pedimented dormers, each with turned eaves.
- Intact hood mouldings over all windows, and capital mouldings on cornerboards
- Simply designed eaves finishing in returned eaves at corners
- Large veranda with two penetrating bay windows on side, clapboard half-wall, but capital mouldings on posts have been lost due to replacement
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History:
- Eli Wamback purchased lots 8 &9 Letter D 3rd Division for $90 in 1872; no house was present
- Believed to have been built by Eli Wamback in 1872; he was a blacksmith
- Robie Cushing, a barber in Bridgewater, bought the house in 1902, Cushings lived in house for over 80 years
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