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Restaurant (John Wharton House)

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John Wharton House
1848. 309 N. Bridge St.
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

This one-and-a-half-story Carpenter Gothic house was built for Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and mayor John Wharton. It is a square, cross-gabled building with a front porch with bold, curvilinear brackets and drops, a balcony above the porch, and a decorated bargeboard.

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Anne Carter Lee
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Anne Carter Lee, "Restaurant (John Wharton House)", [Bedford, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-BD7.

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