Written by Stewart Lytle Wednesday, 03 March 2010 17:08
Built in 1780, the blue-painted Seaport Grande Dame, which faces Bresnahan School, was called the Bullard House and has retained many of the original features and design, including wide-planked flooring. The four-bedroom house was restored and expanded during a renovation in 2005 and 2006, adding modern plumbing and wiring and energy-efficient heating and air conditioning systems and windows.
With more than 3,500 square feet of living space, the three-story home is listed by Lea Cabeen with Keller Williams Realty for $975,000. It has been on the market for about a week.
Cabeen said: “This home is special even for High Street. It has a unique combination of an early American historical style and design with newer renovations and unusual decorations that bridge modern and antique.”
The year the house at 434 Main Street in Amesbury was built the British were busy forcing King James II to flee the country in what historians call the Glorious Revolution of 1688. King William replaced him on the throne the same year.
Did you ever wish as a child that your family would rent an oceanfront cottage? One right on the beach where you could run around all day with your friends, ducking in and out of the water or building sand castles? It would have been a place where sand on the floor was expected instead of a punishable offense.
