William Nettle House

William Nettle, Waterford's first mayor and a master builder from Pennsylvania, completed this house in 1822. Nathan Walker (1802-1871) bought it in 1840 and it remained in the Walker family until 1921. This dwelling has a hall-parlor interior plan. The front door opens into the principal entertainment area, or hall, and a smaller private room, the parlor, adjoins the hall. Notice the lovely candlestick molding embellishing the cornice. The pedimented door surround was added in the 1950s.

The William Hite Hough House

William Hite Hough (1783-1875), "Old John" Hough's grandson, erected this dwelling between 1817 and 1820. While the house has three bays like the Nettle House next door, the interior configuration of this building is a two-room plan. The front door opens into a side passage, along which two rooms are aligned front to back. This arrangement allows more privacy for family members, as visitors waited in the passage for admittance.

Walker-Phillips House

Isaac Walker (1781-1851) constructed this house sometime before 1833. At one time the property included several outbuildings, one of which served in the late 1800s as an office for Doctor J.H. Moore. Like the Hough House next door, the main block of the house is three-bay with a two-room interior floor plan.

The Doctor's House

This is another house owned and probably built by William Nettle. He built the three-bay, two-story right side of this dwelling between 1818 and 1820. It remained in his family at least through 1875, when his widow Sarah owned the property. The smaller addition to the left, which served as a doctor's office for many years, was probably added around the turn of the century.