49 Waterview Street

49 Waterview Street, c.1855

Built by Captain W. H. Sawyer, whose wharves occupied the waterfront, this cottage appears originally to have been a typical early colonial bungalow, symmetrically designed with a window on either side of the front door, and a chimney at each end of the roof. The façade of the apparent extension (on the uphill end) has been built of sandstone to blend seamlessly with the original building. This approach differs from the current vogue for adding extensions to old buildings in a contrasting modern style. The ornate cast iron “lace” is typical of the later Victorian love of elaborate ornamentation, when the aesthetic pendulum swung away from early colonial simplicity.