Wade House - 205 Orange Street   The Wade House, located at 205
Orange Street, is a story-and-a-half, timber-framed house
probably built in the early 1830s by Ann Wade, a freed African
American slave. The house measures 20’3” in width and 20’6”
deep. It has a side passage with two doors that once led to two
rooms on the opposite side, one behind the other. While the
floor plan for the second floor has been left unchanged, the
original staircase may have been moved, and the porch was added
after the house was built. A modern addition has been placed at
the rear of the house while several modern changes have been
made on both the first and second floors. Along with its
ownership, some of the Wade House’s most interesting
characteristics lie in the ways in which the building has been
changed over time.  Since its construction, the Wade House has
been greatly renovated and repaired. There is evidence of a
small fire in the attic where roof lath has been partially
charred. In the roof, a combination of pit sawn an