James Brown House
Built in 1817, this federal structure features the high gambrel roof characteristics of many small commercial buildings of the period. The brick facade is laid up in Flemish bond. The splayed lintels and double flared keystones are reminiscent of and earlier Georgian style. In the Nineteenth Century, the house was a brewery. It became a restaurant at the turn of the century, and during prohibition, it was a speakeasy, with a boarding house, brothel, and smugglers' den upstairs.
Marker is on 326 Spring Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
