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Show Boston's Oldest House. What is generally believed to be the oldest house Htanding in Boston has been transferred from one estate to another for the first time in over 2t0 years. The property is known us the Wells mansion. Tho sale was mailo by the Wells estate to Mr. A. Itatsheky, a Hebrew millionaire. million-aire. This interesting relio of tho colonial period, now used for a store and tenements, tene-ments, bears a strong resemblance in its style of architecture to tho old Dickens house in London. It is a two story frame structure, very substantial and likely to last another generation, if not torn down to make room for a modern building. Tho striking jieculiarity of its exterior is that its second story projects six inches or more beyond tho walls of tho first a freak of construction that caunot be accounted ac-counted for on any known ground of practical use or ornamentation. The title was examined into by John T. Has- i Ban, who discovered that it had not pre- ( viously been inquired into since 1081, ! I when it came into the possession of the forefathers of tho present comptrollers ; of the Wells estate. Boston Post. j |