Nantucket -- We have many more pictures from the Upper Main walking tour that we may add to the web someday, but let's discuss just two more. The first is really a set of two buildings built around 1846 -- about the time of the Great Fire. They are obviousness Greek Revival and built with expensive clapboard siding, Corinthian columns, and other classical decorative moldings. The architect was Frederick Brown Coleman and the owner of both was William Hadwen who owned the factory that is now the whaling museum.There are no other houses of this elegance on Nantucket as the whaling industry was already in decline when they were constructed (and the burnt lower town was being rebuilt in brick). The architect, however did the famous Atheneum a few blocks away as well as the new facade on the Methodist church. We'll see them soon.
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