The front part of this house, like the facing Bliss Carman house, is made of vertical 4-inch thick deals (huge heavy-timber planks), pegged together between the clapboard and interior lath and plaster. It was constructed about 1840 by master mason John Block. Local lore has it that the rear portion may in fact be pre-Loyalist. This home was plaqued by the Fredericton Heritage Trust in 1977.
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