Federal style brick house and a row of wood-frame buildings on Ninth Avenue above 21st Street, ca. 1977.

The Federal house was completed in 1832 and is today the second-oldest building in the Chelsea Historic District. James N. Wells lived and kept an office there between 1833 and 1839, while a grocery operated in the ground-floor storefront as early as 1835. The neighboring wooden houses were built for wells in the 1850s and 60s. At one point, all four buildings shared a continuous awning.

In Edmund Vincent Gillon’s late 1970s photo, the storefront is occupied by L&S Dairy.