Wilson-Warner House

Wilson-Warner House facade at Historic Odessa

The Wilson-Warner House c. 1769 was constructed in the Delaware-Georgian style to affirm David Wilson's status as the town's most prosperous merchant. Today the house is furnished according to the "List of Sale" recorded in the family bankruptcy in 1829.

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1971.761 coffee cup

Coffee cup

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
1815-1840
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Colonial Revival style garden pineapple gate ornament at the entry of the Corbit-Sharp House

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Colonial Revival style garden pineapple gate ornament at the entry of the Corbit-Sharp House. The pineapple is historically the symbol of hospitality. It became a highly popular finial design in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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