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Wigglesworth House

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1883, Charles Bayles, builder. 1154 3rd Ave.
  • (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

William Hudson Wigglesworth, the son of D&RG surveyor Thomas Wigglesworth, was a Durango town manager who built this two-story vernacular Colonial Revival house. Its muted details include the stone foundation, shed dormers, miniature roof brackets, and ball finials on the side gable ends.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Wigglesworth House", [Durango, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-LP12.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 558-558.

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