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John Wesley Chisholm, a resident of Waverley, was 17, “but looking like 12, a double denim-clad dreamer perched on the edge of adulthood and the rusty box of a two-tone blue F-100 Ford pickup.”
Chisholm lives there now, a successful TV producer who for a time played in some popular bands in the Halifax area. He’s as crazy about the house today as he was upon first seeing it 43 years ago.The restrictions that a historic designation puts on a property reduce what it can be used for, limiting demand for it, and therefore lowering prices.
Actually, the historic preservationists love the house, too, since it was designed by the prominent architect Graham Creighton and built a century ago for Harry I. Mathers, the then-owner of the venerable Halifax shipping firm. His widow lived there for another 25 years, according to a written history of the residence, “often opening its doors for community and church events, along with charitable fundraisers,” and taking in boarders.When she died in 2004, the property was subdivided into three lots. The house was going to be torn down and the property redeveloped, which is when Chisholm re-enters the story.
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