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Article: A New Wells House in Waterbury
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- Seven Days
- Article date:
- May 11, 2005
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Two and a half years after a fire gutted a historic 19th-century house in downtown Waterbury, the old structure met its demise last week, as a wrecking crew brought down nearly all of what remained of the original building. Its demolition marks the end of a two-year battle to save the historic house, which once belonged to Vermont's most famous Civil War hero. But its new developers say that the antebellum house will rise again.
Today, little remains of the original structure other than its front door and columns, a small amount of brickwork and an engraved granite plaque. The house, which was built in 1850 and was once listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was the ...