The house at 35 Main Street in Essex was originally built in the late eighteenth century with a gambrel roof. It was enlarged before 1810 by builder Thomas Millard, likely for the newlyweds, Nathaniel Wilson and Temperance Lay.

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Nathaniel Wilson House (1800)