#30. Captain Wells House, 530 Main Street c. 1864/70
Italianate villa of grand proportions built for Captain
Wells at the height of the whaling industry. The house
has twin-arched windows on all sides of the tower and
elegant arches on front porch. After losing his whaling
fortune, Captain Wells had his ship, the Swallow, enlarged
and went to Africa to obtain slaves. He collected the human
cargo and started homeward but was never heard of
again. The crew, however, arrived safely, sold the slaves and the ship.