Address: 720 Gilead Street
Inventory Num: 180
Location: East side 0.2 Mi north of Meetinghouse Road
Year Built: 1763 - 1764
Builder: Unknown
Style: Georgian/ Federal
Current Use: Residence
Notable Architectural Features:
- 5-bay balanced facade
- Twin end interior brick Chimneys
- 6/6 sash in old section
- Left side of main facade has been extended with a shed roof and a large gabled dormer with imbricated shingles
- Fieldstone foundation
- Veranda covers two-thirds of the front and South side, has a shed roof and is supported by Tuscan columns. Well behind the porch has horizontal boarding.
- Doorway has pilasters supporting an entablature.
Importance:To build the house, it is said, lumber was purchased from Indians for 14 quarts of rum.
Authenticity Much remodeled. New leanto with big dormer on front. Piazzas all around.
Orig Owner Edmund Welles; "Welles Way"
(WPA Architectural Survey - ca. 1935 - # 38) 
