<p>The Martin Marmon House is a historic house near the village of Zanesfield in Jefferson Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States. Built by pioneer settler Martin Marmon around the year 1820, it is one of the best remaining examples of Quaker architecture in the area.</p><br>
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<p>A Quaker from North Carolina, Martin Marmon moved to west-central Ohio from Kentucky in 1805 with his two brothers and their families; On this land he built the brick house in which he lived for the rest of his life.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Marmon House was the residence of a leading individual of the day. After Logan County was organized from Champaign County in 1818, Marmon occupied many civic offices in the new county: treasurer of Jefferson Township for twenty-five years, treasurer of Logan County for four years, and county sheriff for five years. The Marmon brothers were also religious pioneers: they founded the Goshen Meeting of Friends in 1807, which as Goshen Friends Church remains the oldest church in what is now Logan County.</p><br>
<p>After Martin&#39;s death, his farm was sold to David Springate, an Englishman from Kent, who settled there in 1864. At that time, the farm included 153 acre of land. and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is one of four houses in Logan County that is on the Register.</p><br>
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<p>Besides its association with the settlement of the Marmon Valley, the Marmon House is significant as a rare example of extant Quaker architecture; it has been assessed as being the best-preserved Quaker house in its part of Ohio. It is typical of a Quaker-style period house, with its stone foundation, its brick 2½-story construction, its window arrangement, and the location of its chimneys. While four other brick houses were built in the vicinity at the same time, none of them retain the integrity of the Quaker architecture of the Marmon House: the Robert Marmon House has been remodelled, two others have been destroyed, and the fourth features a different style of architecture. Some changes have been made to the house: a summer kitchen of uncertain date is attached to the eastern end of the house, the ground floor has been plumbed, and the original roof has been replaced by a tin roof. Also located on the property is a shed and an early spring house. The shed retains enough historic integrity to qualify as a contributing property, but the spring house has been modified significantly. The house sits in an obscure location: although it is only a short distance away from USA Route 33, a limited-access highway, and just 100 ft from County Road 153, it lies at the bottom of a hill in the middle of thick woods.</p><br>
<p>Grace United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist Church building at 34 Court Street in Keene, New Hampshire. Built in 1869, it was designed by architect Shepard S. Woodcock, and is one of the largest churches in southwestern New Hampshire. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Its congregation moved in 2009 and was disbanded in 2016, and the building is  undergoing renovation for use as professional offices.</p><br>
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<p>The former Grace United Methodist Church is in downtown Keene, a short way north of Central Square on the west side of Court Street. It is a large brick building with Gothic Revival styling. It has a gabled roof, with buttressing along the sides and at the corners. A tower with a tall spire rises from the right front corner, with a polychrome slate finish. There are three entrances on the main facade, one in the tower, one at the center below the main gable, and one to the left of a buttressed turret. The interior is two stories, with classrooms, vestry, and office spaces on the ground floor, and the main sanctuary on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The Grace congregation was founded in 1832, and built its first house of worship in 1852. This church was built in 1868-69, to a design by Shepard S. Woodcock, a prolific regional architect working out of Boston, Massachusetts. It was built at the high cost of $40,000, beyond the means of its parishioners to afford; the congregation was in debt until 1896. Originally roofed in polychrome slate (similar to what appears on the spire), the roof was replaced after the 1938 New England Hurricane.</p><br>
<p>Due to dwindling enrollment, the Methodist congregation moved to rent smaller quarters in the Odd Fellows Hall on Marlboro Street, and was formally disbanded in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Park Hill Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Park Hill in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. Built in 1764, and extensively restyled in the early 19th century, it is a fine example of Federal and Greek Revival architecture, influenced by the work of regionally prominent architect Elias Carter. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now owned by the Westmoreland Park Hill Meetinghouse and Historical Society.</p><br>
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<p>The Park Hill Meetinghouse is located in the Park Hill village north of Westmoreland&#39;s village center, on the east side of New Hampshire Route 63. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a broad five-bay facade, with paired pilasters at the corners and three entrances framed by pilasters and topped by a long cornice. The entrances are sheltered by a projecting gabled portico, supported by round Doric columns. A three-stage square tower rises above the portico to a bell-shaped cupola and weathervane.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1764, but has been moved twice and extensively altered. It was originally built without a steeple, and was moved once in 1779 and again in 1824 to its present location. The 1779 move was done due to changing population locations within the community, and was accompanied by the addition of porches to its sides. At the time of the second move, the porches were removed, the main chamber was enlarged, and the tower and portico were added, based on the designs of Elias Carter used in other area meeting houses. In 1853 its exterior was restyled in the popular Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Richmond Community Church is a historic church building on Fitzwilliam Road  in Richmond, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1838, it is a distinctive regionally early example of Greek Revival church architecture executed in brick. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is now owned by a Methodist congregation.</p><br>
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<p>The Richmond Community Church is located in the village center of Richmond, on the south side of Fitzwilliam Road a short way east of its junction with Alford Road and Old Homestead Highway. It is a single-story brick structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded gable ends. Its main facade faces north toward the road and is two bays wide. Each bay is flanked by simple brick pilasters, which also appear at the building corners. The bays each house a building entrance with sidelight windows on the ground floor, and sash windows at the gallery level. A square two-stage wood-frame tower rises above the facade.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1838 by a Unitarian congregation, which sold a half interest in the building to the First Baptist Society before the building was completed. It is the earliest in a series of brick churches built at the time in New Hampshire in the Connecticut River valley region, probably built under the influence of earlier work of Lebanon, New Hampshire native Ammi Burnham Young. It is distinguished from earlier Federal style churches by the pilasters on the corners and on the front facade.</p><br>
<p>The Second Rindge Meetinghouse, Horsesheds and Cemetery is a historic meeting house and cemetery on Old US 202  and Rindge Common in Rindge, New Hampshire. Built in 1796, it is relatively distinctive in New England as one of few such meeting houses where both civic and religious functions are still accommodated, housing both the town offices and a church congregation. The towns first cemetery, established in 1764, lies to the north of the meetinghouse. It is the resting place of many of Rindges early settlers, and of its American Revolutionary War veterans. Behind the meetinghouse stand a row of horse sheds, the only one of the two rows of them which originally served the meetinghouse. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>The Second Rindge Meetinghouse stands prominently in the village center of Rindge, on the north side of School Street at its junction with Main Street and Payson Hill Road. It is a 2-1/2 story timber frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is wide, with three entrances on the ground floor and five sash windows on the second, with a row of short windows in the gallery level below the pedimented gable. A square tower rises to an open belfry, clock stage, and spire.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1796, replacing the town&#39;s first meeting house, which stood on approximately the same site and had been built about 1766. After the state mandated the separation of church and state with respect to these types of buildings, an arrangement was made in 1820 in which the property was owned by the town, and space within it was leased to the church congregation.</p><br>
<p>The Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on the village green in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. It presently serves as Fitzwilliam Town Hall. Built in 1817, it is a high-quality example of period church architecture, based closely on the work of regionally noted architect Elias Carter. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was included in the Fitzwilliam Common Historic District in 1997.</p><br>
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<p>The Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse occupies a prominent location in the town&#39;s village center, on the east side of the village green near its southern end. It is a two-story timber frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is a rectangular structure with a projecting Greek Revival temple front with four columns and a triangular pediment. A four-stage tower rises above the front facade, with a clock (given in 1861) in the first stage, and a Paul Revere bell hangs in the second stage belfry, an open section with round arches on all four sides.</p><br>
<p>Fitzwilliam&#39;s first meetinghouse was built in the early 1770s, and was replaced by its second one in 1816. That building was destroyed by fire after only nine weeks of use, resulting in the construction of this one the following year. Both the 1816 and 1817 buildings are believed to be faithful replicas of a church designed by Elias Carter and built in Templeton, Massachusetts. This church design was particularly influential in a series of church buildings erected in the early decades of the 19th century in southwestern New Hampshire, and the Fitzwilliam structure is believed to be the first of those to be built. Although it was built primarily as a church, it was converted to entirely secular uses in 1858, at which time the gallery level was converted into a full second story.</p><br>
<p>The Troy Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village center of Troy, New Hampshire, United States. The district is centered along New Hampshire Route 12, north to Marlborough Road and south to the junction with South Main Street. To the east of NH 12 it includes School Street, Mill Street, and Monadnock Street as far as Mill Street, and most of the abutting streets. On the west side it includes Russell, Water, and Prospect streets, and South Main Street nearly to Longmeadow Drive. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The village is dominated by residential construction, which mainly consists of 1.5 and 2.5 story wood-frame houses built between about 1850 and the early decades of the 20th century. The village grew where it is because of the ready access to water power, provided by several streams which merge to form the South Branch of the Ashuelot River. Troy was incorporated out of parts of Marlborough and Fitzwilliam in 1815. The heart of the town is its common, created when the town was incorporated. Its economic activity was focused on the mill complexes that developed on Mill Street and Monadnock Street. These initially produced wood products, but in the second half of the 19th century, the greatest period of Troy&#39;s growth, textile processing became increasingly important. Business benefited from the arrival of the railroad in the late 1840s, which also brought tourists to the area.</p><br>
<p>The United Church of Christ in Keene  is a historic Congregational church at 23 Central Square in Keene, New Hampshire, United States. First built in 1786, and then moved and restyled in the 19th century, it is a prominent visual and architectural landmark in downtown Keene. The church and its adjacent parish house were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The United Church of Christ in Keene is sited prominently in downtown Keene, on the northern side of its Central Square. It has an elaborately decorated front facade, with the main entrance at the center in a rounded arch set in a projecting pavilion. The pavilion is fronted by fluted Corinthian columns, with paired pilasters on the facade on either side of the pavilion. The columns and pilasters rise to an entablature and modillioned cornice. A tower 130 ft in height rises through five stages to a spire and cross.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of this church is its timber frame, a 50 by structure that was built in 1786 as the town&#39;s fourth meeting house. In 1828 the meeting house was rotated and moved, nearly to its present location, and the Greek Revival temple front with Doric columns was added, as was the tower and steeple. These alterations were supposedly inspired by the recent (1817–18) construction of the Third Fitzwilliam Meetinghouse. In 1859-60 the church was again moved, this time a short distance to make room for an enlarged sanctuary, as designed by the Worcester firm of Boyden & Ball. The building exterior has been little altered since; the steeple was recreated from photographs after the original was toppled by the New England Hurricane of 1938. In 1924 a two-story brick parish house was built next to the church.</p><br>
<p>The West Swanzey Covered Bridge  is a historic wooden covered bridge carrying Main Street over the Ashuelot River in West Swanzey, New Hampshire. Built in 1832, it is one of New Hampshire&#39;s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. Unlike most of those, it is prominently located in the village, providing access from the village center to New Hampshire Route 10. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The West Swanzey Covered Bridge is located just west of the village center of West Swanzey, carrying Main Street over the Ashuelot River in a roughly east–west orientation. It is one of two bridges in the village; the other is a modern one about 0.25 mi downriver. It is a two-span Town lattice truss structure, 13610" long, with spans measuring 640" and 63&#39;6", and rests on a stone central pier and abutments. It is covered by a shallow-pitch metal gabled roof, which extends beyond the trusses to shelter sidewalks on both sides. Only one of the sidewalks now survives, although evidence of the separate walkway portals survives. The main vehicle portals have segmented-arch tops, which are echoed in the pedestrian portals.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1832 by Zadoc Taft for the town at a cost of $523.27. In 1973 the bridge was posted for a six-ton limit, requiring school buses to empty before they could cross the bridge. It was closed to all traffic in 1990, and underwent a major reconstruction in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Some notoriety came to the Thompson Bridge in 1930. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, attempted to purchase the bridge and relocate it to his Greenfield Village Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. However, the town selectmen refused to sell the landmark. Ford later purchased Pennsylvania&#39;s Ackley Covered Bridge instead. The bridge was repainted in 2023.</p><br>
<p>The Slate Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge which carries the Westport Village Road over the Ashuelot River in Westport, a village of Swanzey, New Hampshire. The bridge was built in 2001, as a replacement for an 1862 bridge that was destroyed by arson fire in 1993. The 1862 bridge, one of New Hampshire&#39;s small number of surviving 19th-century covered bridges, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Slate Covered Bridge is located in southwestern Swanzey, carrying Westport Village Road (formerly an alignment of New Hampshire Route 10) over the Ashuelot River in a roughly north-south orientation. The bridge is a reproduction of the 1862 bridge. The 1862 bridge was a single span Town lattice truss, with a span of 122 ft and a roadway width of 17 ft. Its name derives from a family that lived nearby at the time of its construction. It rested on abutments of split granite, and was covered with a tin roof. Its sides were fully sheathed, and it had numerous repairs and parts replaced.</p><br>
<p>Following a devastating fire in 1993, the Slate Bridge was rebuilt in 2001. Through fundraising efforts from the Slate Covered Bridge Committee, a new $950,000 covered bridge was designed by Hoyle Tanner and built by Wright Construction, Inc. The project received several merit awards, including the 2002 National Timber Bridge Award, the 2003 National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Award, and the Plan New Hampshire Award in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Coombs Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge which carries Coombs Bridge Road over the Ashuelot River in northern Winchester, New Hampshire. It was built in 1843, and is one of the state&#39;s small number of surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>The Coombs Covered Bridge is located roughly midway between the village centers of Winchester and Swanzey, carrying Coombs Bridge Road across the Ashuelot River between New Hampshire Route 10 and Old Swanzey Road. The bridge consists of a single span 107 ft long and 14 ft wide, with a span of just under 102 ft. It rests on unmortared stone abutments, and has a clearance over the river of about 11 ft. Its Town lattice trusses are sheathed in vertical board siding, and it is covered by a metal gabled roof. The end portals have segmented-arch openings, and there are banded openings on the side walls to admit light.</p><br>
<p>The Coombs Bridge was constructed near the homestead of farmer Anthony Coombs, Jr. and has long been maintained by the town of Winchester. The bridge had major repairs in 1971 and 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Carlton Bridge  is a historic wooden covered bridge that carries Carlton Road over the South Branch Ashuelot River in East Swanzey, New Hampshire. The bridge was built in 1869, and is the region&#39;s only surviving example of a 19th-century Queenspost truss bridge. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
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<p>The Carlton Bridge is located in central eastern Swanzey, in a rural setting on Carlton Road east of New Hampshire Route 32. Carlton Road is one of the main routes connecting Swanzey village with East Swanzey. The bridge is a single span 67 ft in length and 16 ft wide, resting on granite abutments. Its roadway is 12 ft wide, sufficient for one lane of traffic. Its exterior is sheathed in vertical board siding and is topped by a gabled roof. Its trusses have been reinforced with iron tie rods and other metal elements.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1869 on a site that is believed to have had a bridge since 1789. It is believed to be the only example of a Queenspost truss bridge in southern New Hampshire. This truss method is quite old, and is based on techniques used for building large structures such as churches and barns.</p><br>
<p>The Carlton Bridge was repaired in 1997 by Wright Construction Co., Inc. of Mount Holly, Vermont. Work began with dismantling the bridge to provide access to the bottom chord; reusable pieces were stored in a nearby field. Crews replaced rotted wood throughout the bridge, including the trusses, floorboards, and rails. The repairs cost $414,025, with the State Bridge Aid Program covering 80 percent. The Carlton Bridge reopened on October 4, 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Ashuelot Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge over the Ashuelot River on Bolton Road, just south of its intersection with NH 119 in Ashuelot, an unincorporated village of Winchester, New Hampshire. Built in 1864-65, it is one of the state&#39;s few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
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<p>The Ashuelot Covered Bridge is located in western Winchester, at the center of Ashuelot Village. It is a Town lattice truss bridge, spanning the Ashuelot River in a roughly north-south orientation. It consists of two spans with a total length of 178 ft. The total width of the bridge is 29 ft, and has a central roadway and sidewalks (measuring 310" in width) on each side. The bridge rests on stone abutments and a central pier. The abutments have been reinforced with concrete since the bridge was built, and the central pier has been protected by a metal breakwater. The bridge passes 117" over the water. One unusual feature of this bridge is that its sides are not fully sheathed, the usual means by which the truss elements are protected from the elements. Instead, the bridge roof is extended to provide long eaves, and the sides are sheathed to the height of the walkway handrails.</p><br>
<p>A bridge was already standing at this site when the town of Winchester first began considering construction of a replacement in 1853. A new bridge was finally approved in 1864, and the present structure was opened the next year, having cost $4,650 to build. Portions of the old bridge were apparently used in its construction, since older beams were found in it during repairs made after the New England Hurricane of 1938. The bridge was the principal means of access between the village railroad station (located near its southern abutment) and the village proper on the north bank.</p><br>
<p>The 1998 repairs of the Ashuelot Bridge in Winchester included significant repairs to the abutments. As crews worked to correct the grade of the approaches, two large granite capstones were uncovered and buried in the fill. These granite blocks, one of which was found whole and the other cracked in two, were reinstalled in their original location in front of new back walls made of stone and mortar. These granite capstones are visible at each approach to the bridge. The Ashuelot Bridge in Winchester was reopened on July 2, 1999, after a $667,000 rehabilitation project. The completed rehabilitation received the first-ever Palladio Award for Covered Bridges in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Sawyers Crossing Covered Bridge, also known as the Cresson Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge carrying Sawyers Crossing Road over the Ashuelot River in west Swanzey, New Hampshire. Built in 1859 to replace an older bridge, it continues to serve as a part of Swanzeys transportation network, and is one of the states few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
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<p>The Sawyers Crossing Covered Bridge is located west of Swanzey&#39;s village center, spanning the Ashuelot River in a roughly east–west orientation. It is a two-span Town truss construction, resting on abutments and a central pier made of split granite. Its exterior is finished in vertical board siding, and it is covered by a metal gabled roof. The portals are rectangular with rounded corners at the top. It is 117 ft long and 17 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1859 to replace a bridge built in 1771. It has had metal parts (tie rods and bolts) added to increase its strength, and it continues to receive regular maintenance. In 1983, repairs were made by Evroke Corporation of Laconia and a significant renovation was made by Wright Construction Co., Inc. of Mount Holly, Vermont, in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The bridge gained some notice in 1953, when a picture of it was used in a cigarette advertising campaign, in which it was known as the "kissing bridge".</p><br>
<p>The Bay Meeting House and Vestry, now the Second Baptist Church, is a historic church complex on Upper Bay and Steele Roads in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Built in 1836 for a Free Will Baptist congregation headed by Moses Cheney, the church is a good example of transitional Federal and Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The Bay Meeting House is located in a rural area in northeastern Sanbornton, at the junction of Upper Bay and Steele Roads. The property is on high land overlooking Lake Winnisquam to the east, which was historically known as Sanbornton Bay, the origin of the church&#39;s name. The church is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof topped by a two-stage square tower. The first stage is plain, with a projecting cornice topped by a low railing and Gothic spires at the corners. The second stage is an open belfry (now lacking a bell), with paneled square posts joined by segmental arched moulding. It is also topped at the corners by a narrower set of Gothic spires. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances flanking a central window, and windows above each of these elements. Windows on the sides are topped by Gothic fans. The vestry is a relatively modest rectangular structure, built in 1841 with enlargements in the early 20th century and again in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The first Free Will Baptist meetinghouse was built on this site about 1808, for a congregation under the leadership of Rev. Moses Cheney. That organization was disbanded about 1816, when the Second Baptist Society was organized. A separate organization, the Second Baptist Church, was founded in 1822. The present church was built in 1836, and remained in ownership by the Society until it was transferred to the Church in 1955. Its exterior, a blend of Federal massing with Gothic features, has remained nearly unaltered since its construction. The vestry, built in 1841 and enlarged in the early 20th century, is a vernacular structure that is typical of its period.</p><br>
<p>The Centre Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church on Province Road  in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built in 1826–27, it is one of the region&#39;s best examples of a late Federal-period church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>The Centre Congregational Church is located in the village center of Gilmanton, on the north side of Province Road just west of its junction with New Hampshire Route 140. It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof. Its main block is rectangular, with an unusually deep entrance pavilion topped by a full pediment and two-stage square belltower. The main entrance is a large double door flanked by paired columns, supporting an entablature and projecting cornice. It is flanked by a pair of large arched windows, and there is a recessed molded panel with a decorative swag above the doorway. The belltower&#39;s first stage is a simple square clapboarded section, and the second stage uses corner pilasters and arched louvers. The interior retains original flooring and woodwork, as well as kerosene light fixtures (although these are no longer used). Alterations include the removal of some of the original pews to make way for an organ.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1826-27 for a local Congregationalist congregation, created by some sort of religious division with the First Congregational Church. The building avoided the fate of similar surviving period churches, the updating of its interior during the Victorian period, because the town&#39;s population declined during that time.</p><br>
<p>Dana Meeting House  is a historic meeting house on Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1800 by a Free Will Baptist congregation after the majority of the townspeople voted that the town&#39;s tax-subsidized New Hampton Town House would be used by the Congregationalists. The Baptist congregation originally met in homes until its meeting house was completed, and the early congregation was opposed to a paid ministry. Originally, services were conducted in rotation by three men: Simeon Dana, a physician, Josiah Magoon, a Revolutionary War veteran, and Thomas Perkins, a legislator. The best known was Dr. Dana who regularly conducted Sunday worship services from 1803 to 1853 and became the namesake of the church. Notable early preachers included Benjamin Randall and John Colby.</p><br>
<p>Church services were held on Sundays throughout the year until 1860, when regular Free Will Baptist services were discontinued. Various summer services were held in the meeting house after the 1860s. Rev. Adoniram Judson Gordon, a prominent minister who was a native of New Hampton, often preached at the meeting house during the summers. Gordon went on to found Gordon College. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and contains box pews and a few unboxed pews.</p><br>
<p>The Dana Church was founded Jan. 6, 1800 at the home of Capt. Peter Hanaford. Josiah Magoon was chosen as one of three messengers to the Quarterly Meeting at Canterbury. In April 1802, Brother Magoon (Josiah, Sr.) was one of three men appointed to “take oversight in building the meetinghouse.” The building was first used in Dec. 1802, during the ordination of the first elders and deacons, including the Elder Josiah and Deacon James Huckins.</p><br>
<p>Josiahs son, Stephen, was the cabinetmaker who made the pews and finished the interior of the church. Elder Magoon was an itinerant preacher in Maine, Vermont, and mostly in New Hampshire. Among his descendants were several noted ministers, educators, architect, politicians, and lawyers. He did not preach much after his 80th birthday. Stephen Sleeper Magoons house is across the street from the Dana Meeting house. Stephen was a farmer, country merchant, and held various offices in New Hampton.</p><br>
<p>On March 9, 1801, the first town meeting was held in this meeting house. The names of many of the founding families are still on plaques on each of the pews in the meeting house, of where they were to sit.</p><br>
<p>The Cake Theater  is a historic building on Veterans Square in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1836 and extensively restyled in 1871, it is a fine 19th-century building, illustrating adaptive alterations made over time to reflect changing uses and tastes. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The building stands on the east side of Veterans Square in central Laconia, adjacent to the current Congregational church, and across from the former train station. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A square tower projects slightly from the front facade, rising to an octagonal spire. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature and modillioned cornice. Ground floor windows are small rectangular sash, while the upper floor windows are tall with rounded arches, and embedded pairs of round-arch windows within.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1836 for a Congregationalist congregation, replacing an older church which had burned. Originally built with Greek Revival features, it underwent major exterior alterations in 1871, adding a second floor (by raising the building and building a new lower level), and a taller tower. The church was extensively damaged in 1902, when a fire in the city center set off gunpowder at a nearby hardware store. The damaged building was purchased by a Baptist congregation, and moved to its present location in 1903. The upper stages of the tower were toppled in the New England Hurricane of 1938, resulting in the construction of a new steeple and the installation of a new bell.</p><br>
<p>The Evangelical Baptist Church was the last congregation to occupy the building before moving to the former Our Lady of the Lakes campus on Washington Street in Lakeport in 2013. The building was converted into The Holy Grail Restaurant and Pub, which opened on Memorial Day in May 2014 but closed its doors at the end of April 2017. On May 5, 2020, the Laconia Daily Sun reported that the building had been purchased by Justin Spencer of Recycled Percussion.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church of Gilmanton, also known as the Lower Gilmanton Church, is a historic church building on Province Road , slightly north of Stage Road, in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built in 1842, the church is one of Belknap Countys finest Greek Revival churches, and is accompanied by the countys most intact 19th-century horsesheds. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
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<p>The First Baptist Church of Gilmanton is located in a rural setting on the east side of Province Road, several hundred feet north of its junction with Stage Road. The rectangular building presents a two-story main (southwestern) facade, although its main hall occupies the building&#39;s full height. Although the main body of the building is clapboarded, the gable end of the main facade is flushboarded. The building has wide corner pilasters, and an elaborate cornice with mouldings, frieze, and architrave on three sides. A two-stage bell tower rises above the main facade. On the property stand a series of horsesheds, a long single-story frame structure built partially on a stone foundation; these date to the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>Gilmantons first Baptist congregation was organized in 1773, with its first meetinghouse built on the Lower Gilmanton militia training field the following year. It was moved (sometime before 1788) onto the parcel where this building stands. That building was replaced by the present one in 1842, due to its poor condition. It has undergone only relatively modest alterations, including the introduction of electricity in the 1940s, and the louvering of the belfry, after a bell was installed in it (some sixty years after the buildings construction).</p><br>
<p>Belknap County has twelve surviving churches that were built during the Greek Revival period of the mid-19th century. Most of these have been altered, sometimes substantially. This church is one of the finest of these survivors, and is accompanied by a horseshed row of unparalleled quality in the county.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church  is a historic church building at 20 Church Street in Alton, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1853–54, it is one of Belknap County&#39;s finest Greek Revival churches. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Alton Community Church is located in Altons main village, on the south side of Church Street west of Main Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main entry projects slightly, allowing for the presence of paneled columns, which support the church tower. These columns are matched by pilasters at the buildings corners. The tower&#39;s first stage is paneled, while the second has an open belfry with square posts at the corners and balustrades in between. The belfry is topped by a cornice and four-sided spire. The interior of the main auditorium has been repeatedly altered since its original construction, with gallery spaces converted to storage. The basement level has been adapted to house classrooms, necessitating the addition of a stairwell in the vestibule area. Significant exterior alterations include the removal of a parapet around the tower spire, the addition of a stained glass window in the rear gable, and the construction of an adjoining vestry.</p><br>
<p>The church was built for a congregation established in 1827, that is now known as the Community Church of Alton. It was built in 1853–54, and is one of twelve surviving Greek Revival buildings in the county. Of those, it has one of the more high-style exteriors.</p><br>
<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church in Meredith is a historic church building at 61 Winona Road in Meredith, New Hampshire, United States. Built about 1802 and remodeled in 1848, it is a good example of a mid-19th century vernacular Greek Revival rural church. It is now a museum called the Pottle Meeting House, managed by the local historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church in Meredith is located in a rural setting of central Meredith, on the east side of Winona Road about.6 mi north of its junction with New Hampshire Route 104. It is a single-story rectangular wood-frame structure, with a small ell attached to its northern end, and a shed-roof privy attached to the ell. Greek Revival elements include wide cornerboards, and an entablature that extends under the gable returns. The main facade is plain except for two symmetrically placed entrances, and each side has three sash windows. The interior is mainly taken up by the auditorium, with a pair of shallow vestibules flanking the choir loft at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The Free Will Baptist congregation in Merediths Oak Hill section first met in 1800. Within two years it had grown to 134 people, including some from adjacent towns. Since the congregations early records have not survived, the exact construction date of this building is unknown. Its existence is suggested in a lease of the land dated 1802. Its present appearance appears to be almost entirely due to later alterations, primarily those in 1848 giving the main block its present Greek Revival appearance. The ell, which originally served as a vestry, was added in either 1890 or 1909. The building served as a church until 1946, and was purchased by the newly formed Meredith Historical Society in 1950, which adapted it for use as a museum. Exhibits include early tools and farming artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The First Freewill Baptist Church is a historic Free Will Baptist church building on Drew Hill Road north of Gilman&#39;s Corner Road in East Alton, New Hampshire. Built in 1826, and essentially unaltered since about 1847, it is a well-preserved example of a rural mid-19th century church. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Freewill Baptist Church is located in what is now a rural setting at the geographic center of Alton, on the east side of Drew Hill Road near its junction with Gilman&#39;s Corner Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. Its Greek Revival features include corner pilasters and an entablature, features which are repeated on the first stage of the bell tower, which houses the original period bell. The interior retains many original features, including gas light fixtures and wall sconces. Walls are finished at the lower level with wainscoting, which terminates in a simple chair rail. A simple pulpit is set against the rear wall. The bulk of the main chamber is taken up by bench pews, from which the doors were removed c. 1847.</p><br>
<p>The church was in consistent use until 1860, after which many congregants moved to the Baptist church in the present town center. This area became less important after the 1885 arrival of the railroad at Alton Bay, bypassing the old center. A community organization was formed to maintain the building in 1920. It is one of the only buildings to survive from the original town center.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampton Community Church, formerly known as New Hampton Village Free Will Baptist Church, is a historic church on Main Street in New Hampton, New Hampshire. It is currently associated with the American Baptist denomination. Built about 1854, it is a prominent local example of Greek Revival architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The New Hampton Community Church stands in the village center of New Hampton, on the south side of Main Street near its junction with Shingle Camp Hill Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is an elaborately styled example of Greek Revival architecture, with paneled pilasters at the corners rising to a full entablature, and a fully pedimented gable fronted by a projecting gabled entry pavilion. The pavilion also has paneled pilasters, entablature, and pedimented gable, with the entry recessed in a flushboarded opening with two Doric columns set in antis. The roof is topped by a three-stage square tower, each stage finished with wide cornerboards. The first stage is plain, projecting behind the entry pavilion but partially in front of the main block, the second stage houses a clock, and the third has an open belfry. Each stage is capped by a cornice, and there is a weathervane at the very top.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1854 by a congregation formed by the union of two Free Will Baptist congregations, and its interior styling was updated in the late 19th century. A clock was added to the tower in the 1960s, and the kitchen ell dates to c. 1970. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Second Free Baptist Church is a historic church building on Main Street, south of Church Street in Alton, New Hampshire, United States. It is a wood-frame structure, built in 1853–54, and is the oldest extant Italianate church in Belknap County, with a little-altered exterior. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Alton&#39;s Second Free Baptist Church is located in the center of its main village, on the west side of Main Street just south of Church Street. It is a wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, flushboarded front facade, and clapboarded sides and rear. A square tower projects slightly at the center of the front facade, rising to a square pyramidal spire with a finial at the top. It has the main entrance at its base, set under a peaked and bracketed cornice. Most of the tower is taken up by a tall second stage, which has a tall three-part window topped by a similar peak, and finished with a cornice studded with paired brackets. The tower is flanked on the front facade by windows with peaked tops. The front gable and side eaves are studded with paired brackets.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1853-54 for a Free Will Baptist congregation organized in Alton in 1831. In 1838 this congregation joined with local Congregationalists to build a union church for use by both groups. In 1853 the Congregationalists decided to build their own church, and the Free Will Baptists soon followed suit. Although its interior has seen some alteration to later Victorian styles, the building&#39;s exterior has seen few alterations since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Meeting House is a historic church at the junction of Meeting House and Governor Roads in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built about 1840, it is a well-preserved example of a vernacular 19th-century church building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Smith Meeting House is located in a rural setting near the geographic center of Gilmanton, just south of the junction of Meeting House and Governor Roads. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation. Its main facade has a pair of symmetrically placed entrances, with three windows above. The central window is a stained glass window with a floral motif including a cross and crown. The interior has two small vestibules at the rear, one of which includes a narrow stair up to a choir gallery. The main chamber is relatively unadorned, with pine floors and wainscoting, and is illuminated by electric fixtures, although original kerosene sconces and chandeliers are still present.</p><br>
<p>The church was built about 1840, and was named for Gilmantons first minister, Isaac Smith. He preached at the towns first meeting house, which was also located on this site. The present structure is said to contain structural members used in the construction of the original building. Rarely used for civic functions, its religious use declined in the late 19th century, and its maintenance was taken over in 1898 by the Old Smith Meeting House Improvement Society.</p><br>
<p>United Baptist Church of Lakeport  is a historic church at 35 Park Street in the village of Lakeport in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1891 after a fire destroyed an older church, it is an eclectic local example of Late Victorian architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The United Baptist Church of Lakeport is located in the village of Lakeport, on a lot extending to both Park Street and Railroad Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof. It is basically cruciform in plan, with wide gabled transepts projecting from the sides. On the facade facing Park Street, the transept is flanked on one side by a two-stage tower capped by a conical turret, and the other by a five-stage square tower. The lower level of the building is faced in brick, while the upper levels are finished in a variety of decoratively cut shingles and ornamental corner boards and trim. Windows typically have round-arch heads, as do the openings of the belfry in the main tower.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1891 by the Lake Village Free Will Baptist congregation. It is Victorian Romanesque in design, and the interior sanctuary is Federal in design. It seats 400 and includes the fellowship and Sunday School classes on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was founded in 1774 on Parade Road as Laconia&#39;s First Church. It has changed many times during the years. The United Baptist Church is a 1934 merger of the Union Avenue Baptist Church that was Calvinist (Predestination) and the Park Street Baptist Church that was Free Will in theology. The Union Avenue Baptist Church was torn down, and the Park Street Church became home to the present congregation. A separate parish house (offices) is next door on Park Street. It was painted white, but several years ago it was repainted in the original 1800s colors. The congregation is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches of Vermont/New Hampshire and the American Baptist Churches USA (originally the Northern Baptist Convention).</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church  is a historic church building in Berlin, New Hampshire. Built in 1882, it was the community&#39;s first church building, and is a prominent local example of Stick/Eastlake Victorian architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The building is now a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Berlin&#39;s Congregational Church stands north of its downtown area, on the west side of Main Street at its southern junction with Maple Street. It is a basically rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof. Its exterior is clad in a combination of wooden clapboards, shingles, and applied Stick-style woodwork. A gabled projection extends to the left side near the rear, and a multi-stage rectangular tower rises from the left front corner. The tower has narrow windows (arched in the Gothic style on the second level), with an open belfry topped by a pyramidal roof with flared eave. The belfry openings have arched woodwork and low balustrades. A shed-roof shelter extends across the front of the main facade between the tower and a projecting gabled secondary entrance; the main entrance is in the base of the tower under a bracketed hood.</p><br>
<p>Berlins Congregationalist congregation first organized in 1836, when a Sunday School was established, and the first settled minister was hired the following year. The congregation first met in private spaces (typically homes or barns), until 1852, when the owners of the H. Winslow store made their upstairs hall available for services. The present church, the communitys first dedicated church building, was built in 1882 on land donated by the Berlin Mills Company.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church  is a historic Eastern Orthodox Church building on Petrograd Street in Berlin, New Hampshire. The church is known locally as "The Russian Church" because it was built in 1915 by immigrants from the Russian Empire who were mostly from the provinces of Grodno, Volyn, and Minsk in modern-day Belarus and Ukraine. The church closed in 1963 but reopened in 1974 for the funeral of a Russian immigrant from modern-day Belarus, named Eugenia  Tupick. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and is part of the Orthodox Church in America .</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church was designed by John Bergesen, an architect from New York City. The church was built with six onion domes, which was common in Russian architecture of that period. The dimensions of the church are 36 by, which does not include the main entrance, and a height of approximately 100 ft. The inside of the church is divided into three parts: the vestibule, the nave, and the sanctuary. Its icons were some of the last ones to leave Russia before Czar Nicholas II was overthrown.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1915, Reverend Arcady Piotrowsky came to Berlin from Cleveland, Ohio to establish an Orthodox church for the approximately 500 Russians that inhabited Berlin at that time. At first the church services were held in another church, but then moved to an old garage owned by the city. A site at the base of Mt. Forest was chosen for a new church building to be built, and on May 1, 1915, construction of the church began. On October 1, of that same year, the church was complete.</p><br>
<h2>Reliquaries</h2><br>
<p>Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church houses two reliquary icons, one of Saint Herman of Alaska and one of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The relic of Saint Herman of Alaska was given to the church by Metropolitan Theodosius during a parish visit. In the icon of Saint Nicholas, the saint is pictured holding the city of Berlin in his hand. The relic of Saint Nicholas was found in the altar in late summer of 2003, originally transferred from Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Richmond, Maine, and placed into the icon by Bishop Nikon December 6, 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Stark Union Church  is a historic church on NH 110 in Stark, New Hampshire. Built in 1853 to serve as non-denominational worship space, it is a well-preserved example of mid-19th century vernacular church architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is still the only church in the rural community.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stark Union Church is one of the prominent and visible features of the small village of Stark, set on the west side of New Hampshire Route 110 at its junction with Northside Road, which crosses the Upper Ammonoosuc River on the Stark Covered Bridge just to the west. The church is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is oriented facing south toward Northside Street, with its long side paralleling NH 110. The front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances flanking a single sash window. The doors and window are each topped by a slightly peaked lintel. Windows on the sides are also sash, with similar decoration. A two-stage tower rises from the roof ridge, its second stage an open belfry with round-arch openings. Each stage has pinnacles at the corners, and the top is crested by low crenellations. The interior is relatively plain, with plaster walls and bench pews.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1853, at a time when the small communitys numerous congregations could not individually afford to build churches. The building continues to be owned by the Pew Owners Association whose subscription fees funded its construction. It is a well-preserved example of a vernacular Greek Revival New England church.</p><br>
<p>St. Anne Church is a historic church at 58 Church Street in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States. It is the church for Good Shepherd Parish within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. St. Anne Parish was founded in 1867, and was Berlin&#39;s first Roman Catholic congregation. It was merged with Guardian Angel Parish, St. Joseph Parish, and St. Kieran Parish in 2000 to form Good Shepherd Parish. Its building, constructed in 1900, is an important local example of Romanesque architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Annes stands north of Berlins central business district at the northeast corner of Pleasant and Church streets. It is a roughly rectangular red brick structure, with a long gabled roof and towers flanking the south-facing front facade. The towers are identical in their lower levels, with tall round-arch windows at the lower level and smaller round-arch windows at a higher level. Their corners have brick quoining, and rise to a corbelled brick cornice, above which the treatments differ. The left tower has an open square belfry with round-arch openings, and is topped by a steeple; the right tower is topped by a truncated steeple topped by a statue of Saint Anne. The interior of the building is richly decorated with carved wood and plaster ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>St. Annes was established in 1867, and was the first Roman Catholic congregation in the community. Its first church, a wood-frame structure, was built in 1882. In 1899 it was moved and adapted for use as a parish school. The present church was designed in 1900 by Archibald I. Lawrence, a local architect. It was built by M. H. Roy, a contractor from Lewiston, Maine; the identities of the artisans who created its interior are not known. By the 1970s Berlins Roman Catholic congregations had grown to four, with St. Anne&#39;s principally serving its French-American population. The parishes were merged in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Stark Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge over the Upper Ammonoosuc River in Stark, New Hampshire. It carries a connecting roadway which joins the Northside Road to New Hampshire Route 110. The bridge was built in either 1857 or 1862 , replacing a floating bridge that had been located a short way upstream. It is a two-span Paddleford truss bridge, which is a regional variant of the Long truss. It is 151 ft long with a span of 138 ft, and is 29 ft wide, carrying an 18 ft wide roadway and two 6.5 ft sidewalks. The shore ends of the bridge rest on abutments of granite stone, while the center of the bridge is supported by a reinforced concrete pier, which is flared on the upstream side to deflect debris. The bridge is reinforced with steel beams, giving it a carrying capacity of 15 tons. It is decorated with pendant acorn finials and painted bright white.</p><br>
<p>When originally built, the central pier was also of granite, but it was washed away, along with the bridge, in 1890 or 1895. The bridge survived the disaster, and was placed again on its abutments, and reinforced with laminated arches that were thought to eliminate the need for a central pier. This configuration survived until 1946, when sagging in the bridge prompted construction of a temporary wooden central pier. The bridge was rebuilt in 1954, adding the present concrete pier and the steel stringers, and removing the laminated arches.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa – formerly called the Mountain View House – is an historic grand hotel at 101 Mountain View Road in Whitefield, New Hampshire, United States, with claims to dating back to 1865.</p><br>
<p>It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>It reportedly grew from a farm, which added a guest house. In reference to that, the current resort includes a farm with chicken, sheep, goats, and Scottish Highland cattle.</p><br>
<p>It claims to have the oldest operating elevator in the state of New Hampshire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the Civil War, tourism became popular in the White Mountains, especially with the arrival of the railroad. In 1865, William and Mary Dodge first accepted boarders into their home. By 1866, the couple officially opened an inn called the Mountain View House. Over the years, several additions were built, which by 1884 could accommodate over 100 guests. The facilities were greatly enlarged to accommodate over 200 guests in 1911 and 1912, when the iconic belvedere tower was added to the facade.</p><br>
<p>As an established member of the elite White Mountain resorts, the Dodges continued to expand and improve "The View", as it was called, including nearly doubling the hotel capacity to 300 beds and seating for 450 in the dining hall. Sports and conference facilities were added, and the real estate was expanded to over 3,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>The property remained in the family until it was sold in 1979, giving rise to the claim of being "the oldest resort in the US to be owned and operate by the same family living on the same property."</p><br>
<p>But the new owners proved unsuccessful; it closed in 1986 after 122 seasons and went into foreclosure, with the furnishings auctioned by the bank in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>After being held by investors, but never reopened as of 1998, Kevin Craffey, a general contractor from Duxbury, Massachusetts, purchased the vacant hotel for $1.3 million, including 360 acre, a nine-hole golf course, clubhouse and conference hall. After an extensive $20 million renovation, with addition of a new hotel kitchen, spa, tennis courts, consolidation of 141 rooms, landscaping and updated amenities, the hotel reopened on May 22, 2002, as the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa. In 2005, the hotel and its 4,000 surrounding acres were purchased by the American Financial Group, a holding company which owns several other historic luxury hotels in four other US states.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain View House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain View House is an EPA Green Power Partner, getting all of its electrical power through the installation of a 121 ft wind turbine adjacent to the hotel and through the purchase of renewable energy certificates. The resort has been named an "Environmental Champion" by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and the N.H. Lodging and Restaurant Association.</p><br>
<h2>Controversy</h2><br>
<p>In 2004, a year after vehemently denying any wrongdoing, Mr. Craffey pleaded guilty to environmental felonies, arising from improper asbestos removal and disposal during renovations, and was sentenced to two years of detention, all but two months of which were suspended. He also agreed to pay over $230,000 in fines and restitution and 150 hours of community service.</p><br>
<p>Subcontractors on the renovation filed liens for $765,000 on the property, claiming they had not been paid.</p><br>
<p>The William D. Weeks Memorial Library, also referred to as the Weeks Memorial Library, is a publicly funded, nonprofit library governed by the Town of Lancaster in Coös County, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>Located at 128 Main Street, the single-story brick building was constructed in 1906, enlarged in 1998, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Currently a repository of approximately 62,000 books, news publications, and audiovisual materials, Weeks Memorial Library identifies itself as a hub of community involvement for youth, teens, and adults alike.</p><br>
<p>According to the library&#39;s website, there are more than 4,000 residents of the Lancaster area, including surrounding communities, who are served by active library cards.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A few years before 1850, the town of Lancaster started its first circulating library. In 1858, a Reading Circle was established for the people of the town. They secured additional funding for the library after a November 1860 town hall meeting, and this library was in operation until 1867. Approximately 200 volumes belonged to the Reading Circle, which was housed in first librarian George O. Rogers&#39; office. At this time, library membership was offered to the townspeople at the price of $20 per share. This system of membership continued for the next 70 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, George P. Rowell, a member of the Social Reading Circle and chief founder of Lancasters public library services, donated 1,000 books for the towns free public library efforts, which had expanded to include 2,500 volumes. The 1896 Lancaster Library was housed in what was formerly the 1806 Coos Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>Rowell also offered the former Lancaster Academy building for use as a free public library under the condition that the town raise $500 in support of the initiative. This marked the beginning of the Lancaster Public Library (not to be confused with the library of the same name in Lancaster, Pennsylvania). Rowell then funded the buildings renovations and a new catalog for the librarys collection, which had grown to approximately 4,000 titles within a few years.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, former House of Representatives member, Massachusetts senator, and USA Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks sponsored the construction of a new library building in Lancaster to be named in memory of his father, William Dennis Weeks. Although he became a politician in Massachusetts, John W. Weeks had family ties in Lancaster, and the proposed library building acted as a tribute to the education that led to his future success in politics. He went on to introduce the Weeks Act in 1911, which authorized the purchase and regulation of land in the eastern United States to protect rivers and watersheds. This legislation led to the establishment of the nearby White Mountain National Forest.</p><br>
<p>At its opening in 1908, the Weeks Memorial Library consisted of 9,000 books. Built with future growth of the collection in mind, the space could reasonably accommodate roughly 20,000 items. The library&#39;s juvenile department, funded by the Colonel Town Income Spending Committee, was introduced in 1930.</p><br>
<p>In order to adjust to the growing collection and provide adequate library services, expansion of the Weeks Memorial Library was necessary. The 1998 addition was meant to make library facilities easily accessible to all patrons while also bringing the building up to standard with the current safety codes. At this time, Weeks Memorial Library housed a collection of more than 30,000 books, in addition to 1,000 audiovisual materials.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, the Weeks Memorial Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under criteria A and C as a historically significant place in regards to construction and function.</p><br>
<p>According to libraries.org public statistics, William D. Weeks Memorial Library serves a population of 3,507 residents and has an annual circulation of 35,377 transactions. As of August 2016, the library&#39;s collection included a total of 61,937 volumes. The current library director is Barbara R. Robarts.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Weeks Memorial Library was modeled in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, characterized by "projecting and receding masses, classical columns, carved window and door heads, and other details such as quoins, ascroteria, and antifixae." This was a popular style of architecture amongst libraries in the 20th century, as was the T-shaped plan its design followed. These were common characteristics of several other libraries built with financial support from the Carnegies.</p><br>
<p>The original building, designed by McLean & Wright, is measured at 60 by and is topped by a hipped roof with two chimneys. A central projecting entry pavilion dominates the front façade, with a recessed entry topped by a transom window and a cornice in scrolled brackets. The doorway is flanked with Doric columns, and Ionic pilasters beyond the recessed area. Above the pilasters is an entablature and triangular pediment with decorated tympanum.</p><br>
<p>The building was extended in 1998. The addition, designed by Thomas Wallace of Tennant/Wallace Architects in Manchester, New Hampshire, complemented the architecture of the original structure while still using modern techniques and materials.</p><br>
<h2>Library services and programs</h2><br>
<p>Programs and activities include story times, book discussion groups, recreational activities that promote exercise and healthy living, and movie nights. The library also offers adult learner services like basic reading, writing, and math education, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) instructional resources, and GED preparation.</p><br>
<p>Weeks Memorial Library&#39;s collection consists of 62,000 books, news publications, and audiovisual materials that are geared toward juveniles, teens, and adults.</p><br>
<p>The town of Lancaster&#39;s total population is 3,507, and the Weeks Memorial Library boasts approximately 4,000 active library card holders within the town and its surrounding communities.</p><br>
<h3>Databases</h3><br>
<p>It is a member library of the North Country Library Cooperative under the statewide umbrella organization, the New Hampshire State Library, through which the library offers patrons access to a variety of databases and online resources.</p><br>
<p>Ancestry</p><br>
<p>Biography Resource Center</p><br>
<p>EBSCO</p><br>
<p>Heritage Quest</p><br>
<p>NewsBank</p><br>
<p>OCLC</p><br>
<h3>Genealogy and history</h3><br>
<p>Weeks Memorial Library features an extensive collection of local and genealogical resources for patrons at all stages of the research process, including The New Hampshire Collection, vital records, and local news publications on microfilm.</p><br>
<p>Coös County Democrat</p><br>
<p>Coös Republican</p><br>
<p>Groveton Advertiser</p><br>
<p>Independent / Lancaster Gazette</p><br>
<p>Lancaster Herald</p><br>
<p>White Mountain Echos</p><br>
<p>Whitefield Times</p><br>
<p>The Meadow Bridge was a historic bridge across the Androscoggin River located on a spur of North Road in Shelburne, New Hampshire. It was a multi-span pin-connected truss bridge that was the first on its site when it was built in 1897 by the Groton Bridge and Manufacturing Co. The bridge consisted of three central through Pratt trusses, one pony Pratt truss, and one steel girder section. The ends of the bridge rested on stone abutments, while the interior spans were supported by circular steel piers filled with concrete and anchored in place by timber piles. The bridge was bypassed in 1984 by a modern bridge. In 2004 it was dismantled and stored on the banks of the river for future rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>The bridges total length was about 504 ft, and it was just over 18 ft wide. Its three central spans were identical Pratt trusses, 1334" long and 20 tall. The pony truss connected the main span to the southwestern shore, and measured 7310". It was inclined at a 3% grade. The northern approach was a steel span with stringers 24 long over a 213" span. This approach was inclined at a 2% grade.</p><br>
<p>When the bridge was built, the river normally meandered in a channel that could be as wide as 400 feet. Silting and gravel deposits over time have altered the river&#39;s course, and it now is rarely wider than 250 feet. The main course of the river has been shifted northward, and the northernmost pier had been shored up to prevent it from being undermined. The bridge was one of the longest bridges of its type built in the state.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Benjamin Aldrich Homestead is a historic homestead east of the terminus of Aldrich Road, slightly east of Piper Hill in Colebrook, New Hampshire. Developed beginning in 1846, it is the oldest surviving farm property in the town. Its farmstead includes the original 1846 house and barns of the period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003,</p><br>
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<p>The Benjamin Aldrich Homestead stands in a rural area of northwestern Colebrook, on a hillside of 136 acre overlooking the Connecticut River to the west. The farmstead includes the main house, several barns, a chicken coop, and other storage buildings. The main block of the main house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, granite stone foundation, and Greek Revival decoration. Attached to it is an older -story Cape, now serving as an ell on the south side. The main barn, built about the same time as the ell, is a bank barn with a fieldstone foundation and hand-hewn timber frame.</p><br>
<p>The ell of the house and the barn were built in 1846 and 1847, respectively, not long after Benjamin Aldrichs purchase of the land in 1844. In 1861, the main block of the house was built, and the old house rotated and attached to its south side. The farm is the last intact 19th-century farmstead in the town of Colebrook. It remained in the hands of Aldrichs descendants until 1988, seeing agricultural use well into the 20th century. Originally a largely agrarian community, Colebrook has no active farm properties.</p><br>
<p>The Crawford House Artist&#39;s Studio  is a historic studio building in Carroll, New Hampshire. Built in 1880 as an artist summer house and studio, it is a good local example of Stick style architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has been rehabilitated by the Appalachian Mountain Club , and now serves as a bunkhouse as part of its Crawford Notch Highland Center.</p><br>
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<p>The former Shapleigh Studio is located on the campus of the AMC Highland Center, just north of the top of Crawford Notch on the west side of USA Route 302 in Bretton Woods. It is located between the center&#39;s main parking area and its main building. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Each of its long sides has a central projecting section with a cross gable. The gable ends have Stick style woodwork applied to the walls, and some of the gables have additional decorative woodwork at the gable peaks. Windows are generally large 16-over-16 sash, although there are smaller windows in the side gable ends. An enclosed shed-roof porch extends across the southern part of the western facade; this is also where the main entrance is located.</p><br>
<p>The studio building was built in 1880 to serve as studio space for Frank Henry Shapleigh, a noted painter of White Mountain art. Shapleigh lived and worked in this studio until 1894. As part of its restoration by the AMC, it was relocated to a new foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Garland Mill is a historic sawmill on Garland Road in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Built about 1860, and repeatedly modified to adapt to growth and new technology, it is the only water-powered sawmill  in the state. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Garland Mill stands in a rural upland area of eastern Lancaster, on the west side of Garland Road at its junction with Pleasant Valley Road. The property is bisected by Garland Brook, which provides the mill&#39;s power. The mill is set astride the stream, separated from the main road by the mill pond and wooded area. A wooden crib dam with rock fill provides a drop of about 16 ft at the eastern end of the building. The main mill is a broad single-story timber-framed structure. The interior is one large chamber, with large entrances on the north and south sides to facilitate the entry of logs and the exit of sawn lumber. A wooden penstock brings water to a turbine, from which a series of leather belts deliver power from the main shaft to the saws.</p><br>
<p>The mill was built in 1860 by Eben Crocket Garland, and was a relatively successful small mill operation. It grew in the subsequent decades, its growth spurred by the arrival of railroad service to Lancaster. In 1870, it was one of 640 sawmills in the state. The mill was sold by Garland&#39;s son in 1888. It is now roughly three times the size of its original construction, and kept pace with technological changes through the mid-20th century, updating its turbines when more efficient ones became available.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. At the time of its listing it was still in operation as the only water-powered sawmill in the state.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Homestead is a historic farm property on USA Route 3 in Stratford, New Hampshire. Established in 1830, it retains both the original house and English barn, with 112.5 acre of land whose original usage patterns are still discernible. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
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<p>The Martin farm property is located in far northern Stratford, its entire extent straddling the border with neighboring Columbia. The property is for the most part a strip of land projecting eastward from the Connecticut River, which forms its western boundary. The area nearer the river is wider, and is where the farm&#39;s open fields are located. The property is also divided by USA Route 3. There are fields on both sides of the road, with the area further east rising into wooded uplands. The farmstead is located on the west side of Route 3 in Stratford, about 3 mi north of North Stratford, New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a well-preserved -story plank-framed Cape house. The house may have been built c. 1830 by Joseph Martin, after he acquired the property in a tax sale, or it may already have been standing there. The presence of only a half-basement suggests that three bays of the house were built before it was widened to its present five-bay width. Although it has had some alteration, including a complete rebuilding of its central chimney, the house is the best-preserved period Cape in Stratford. The "English" barn standing to the house&#39;s north appears to be contemporary to the house. This arrangement of detached buildings was common in early 19th-century New England, giving way later in the century (often via modification of older farmsteads) to connected farmsteads. The surviving arrangement seen here is particularly rare in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Jasper Lithic Source is a prehistoric archaeological site in Berlin, New Hampshire. Located on the slopes of Mount Jasper on the north side of the city, it includes one of the only known evidences of mining by pre-Contact Native Americans in the eastern United States. The mountain is a source of rhyolite, apparently prized for its qualities in the manufacture of stone tools. The site includes a mine shaft about 9 m deep, as well as workshops at the base and summit of the mountain. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
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<p>Mount Jasper is a low peak 1 miles northwest of the confluence of the Dead River and Androscoggin River in Berlin, New Hampshire. Its summit is at 1,584 ft above sea level, and its base at the Dead River is about 1,040 ft. It is visually distinguished by a steep rocky slope near its summit. The geology of the mountain includes bands of rhyolite.</p><br>
<p>The site, owned by the city of Berlin, encompasses a triangular area from the summit to points on the Dead River. Its principal features include one or more short mine shafts that follow the seams of rhyolite in the upper reaches of the mount, and workshop areas at both the summit and river-facing base of the mountain. While the deepest mine is 9 m deep, there is ample evidence that other exposed seams of rhyolite were extensively quarried.</p><br>
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<p>The site is historically and archaeologically important as a source of rhyolite, and was identified in the 19th century as a Native American source of the stone. Archaeological investigation of the area conducted in the 1980s identified not only the locations where natives quarried the stone, but has also determined that workshops (where finished materials such as weapon points were fashioned) were located there. Evidence from this and other sites indicates that it was a source of stone for tools as much as 9,000 years ago, and it is unique in the eastern United States in that the natives working the quarry actually tunneled into the mountain. Tools fashioned from stone quarried here have been found at archaeological sites across the northeastern United States.</p><br>
<p>The Philbrook Farm Inn is a historic inn on North Road in Shelburne, New Hampshire. At the core of the inn&#39;s holdings is a farmhouse whose oldest section dates to about 1834. Operated as a tourist accommodation since 1861, it was for 120 years run by members of the same family. The inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The Philbrook Farm Inn stands in a rural area in eastern Shelburne, on the north side of North Road overlooking the flood plains of the Androscoggin River to the south, as well as portions of the White Mountains. The main building of the inn is a rambling 2-1/2 story wood-frame structure, consisting of a c. 1834 farmhouse with numerous additions. The main block houses the main desk and some guest quarters, with more guest quarters in a wing to the east. Dining facilities and residential quarters of the innkeepers are in a wing to the west, and the kitchen is in a wing on the north side. The west wing&#39;s front is flush with that of the main house, while the eastern wing has two sections, that nearest the house slightly recessed, and that at the far eastern end projecting slightly. The area in front of the first of these sections is a now-enclosed porch.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built about 1834 by the Hodgdon family, and was converted into a tourist accommodation in 1861 by the Philbrook family. It was one of the early tourist accommodations to be opened in the region, and has survived numerous changes in transportation and tastes. The Philbrooks first extended the house to the east in 1861, and further expanded the guest room wing to in 1906. A fire in 1934 destroyed a barn and other facilities on the west side of the house, after which they built the present dining and kitchen facilities. It was sold out of the Philbrook family in 1983, ending more than 120 years of operation by a single family. It is one of the only tourist accommodations to survive in northern New Hampshire from the early period of that activity.</p><br>
<p>The Tip-Top House is a historic former hotel in Mount Washington State Park in Sargents Purchase, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1853, it is the oldest surviving building in the summit area of Mount Washington, and is believed by the state to be the oldest extant mountain-top hostelry in the world. It features exhibits concerning the mountains history. Located near the modern summit building and other visitor facilities, it is open for a fee to visitors from early May to early October. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Tip-Top House stands directly adjacent to the summit of Mount Washington, at 6,288 ft the tallest mountain in the northeastern United States. It is located on the southwest side of the summit, just north of the summit station of the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the parking area at the end of the Mount Washington Auto Road. It is a roughly rectangular structure, 1-1/2 stories in height, with walls of rough-cut granite. The stones are mortared together, but the joints are set deep and the mortar is barely discernible. The main entrance is set off-center on the southern short end, in a simple rectangular opening. The sides have rectangular window openings. The interior is largely reflective of a rebuilding effort following a 1915 fire, in which it was gutted.</p><br>
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<p>The building was erected on Mount Washington in 1853 to compete with the Summit House, a nearby hotel established in 1852. Built by Samuel F. Spaulding at a cost of $7,000, the Tip-Top House was made of rock blasted from the mountain. On clear days, a telescope was placed on its flat roof to create an observatory, although in the early 1860s the flat roof was replaced with a pitched roof. Beginning in 1877, the building functioned for seven years as a printing office for Among the Clouds, the mountain&#39;s newspaper. When the newspaper moved to a different location, the Tip-Top House was abandoned and fell into disrepair. A three-story, 91-room hotel was built atop Mount Washington, together with a weather observatory. All of these buildings were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1908, except the Tip-Top House, which was renovated to function again as a hotel. When the Summit House was replaced, however, the Tip-Top House burned; it was rebuilt as an annex to the Summit House, then abandoned in 1968. Now a state historic site, the Tip-Top House was restored in 1987, including its flat roof.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office–Lancaster Main is a historic post office at 120 Main Street in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Built in 1935, it is one of the few examples of Art Deco architecture in northern New Hampshire. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>Lancasters main post office stands just north of the towns central business district, amid a cluster of civic and religious buildings. It is set close to the street at the southwest corner of Main and School Streets, giving it a visually commanding location in the town center, where most of the buildings are set back. It is a single-story masonry structure with a flat roof. The brick is laid in common bond, atop a granite base layer and water table. The center of the main facade projects from the main block, and features six pilasters of fluted granite construction topped by a raised parapet. The building&#39;s symmetry is marred by the addition of a handicapped access ramp to the left half of the front. The interior lobby space is finished with plaster, wood, and masonry. The marble floors are finished in an Art Nouveau multicolored pattern, which is echoed in the wainscoting, which is made of quarry tile. Original lattice grillwork is found at the service windows.</p><br>
<p>The post office was built in 1935 to a design by Louis A. Simon, then the supervising architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. The building&#39;s styling is described as "Starved Classicism", a variant of Art Deco styling that is unusual and rare in the region.</p><br>
<p>The Wallace Farm  is a historic farm at 27 Wallace Road in Columbia, New Hampshire. Established in the late 18th century, the farm has  been continuously held in the same family. The 125 acre includes a c. 1825 farmhouse, carriage house, and barn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>Wallace Farm is located in northern Columbia, a rural community on the east bank of the Connecticut River. The farm property extends eastward from the river, straddling United States Route 3. The area west of the highway is in agriculture, pasture, and woodland, while the area to its east is primarily wooded, including a large sugar bush. The farmstead is located along an old alignment of US 3, between the current highway and the river. The farmstead consists of a series of connected buildings, the oldest of which is the c. 1825 main house, and a separate dairy barn. The house is a 2 1/2 story timber frame structure, that has an L shape, and exhibits Greek Revival styling. The interior was extensively restyled in the 1850s or 1860s. Attached to the main block is a series of three buildings: a carriage house and horse barn, each dating to the time of the house, and an early 20th-century garage. The farm has been in Wallace family hands since the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Three brothers of the Wallace family were among Columbias first settlers, arriving in 1785. Only William, the youngest of the three, remained to work the land they cleared, and he soon became one of the areas most successful farmers. At first a diversified agricultural operation, the farm became focused on dairying as its primary activity in the late 19th century, continuing until 1986, when the herd was sold off. The surviving farmstead is one of the community&#39;s best surviving examples of a connected 19th-century farmstead.</p><br>
<p>The Waumbek Cottages Historic District encompasses a collection of high-quality summer resort houses in Jefferson, New Hampshire. Located on Cottage Road and Starr King Road, these six "cottages" are all that survive of a large late-19th century resort complex that once included a hotel and eleven cottages. All are fine examples of Shingle style architecture, with Queen Anne style touches. The district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006,</p><br>
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<p>The town of Jefferson, founded in 1796, became recognized as a tourist destination in the mid-19th century, in part through the writings of Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King. He convinced a local hotelier to build a larger hotel, called the Hotel Waumbek, in 1860. The availability of railroad transportation greatly increased the tourist trade in subsequent decades, and the hotel was repeatedly enlarged. By the 1890s it was one of the state&#39;s grand hotels, with 500 rooms.</p><br>
<p>During the 1880s, a trend began in these resort properties to build separate houses for some of the hotel guests, and other long-time guests also purchased adjacent properties from real estate promoters to build their own, while taking advantage of the hotel&#39;s amenities. At the Hotel Waumbek, these trends resulted in the construction of eleven separate "cottages" near the hotel between 1889 and 1900. A major fire in 1928 destroyed the hotel and three cottages, two more were demolished later in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is located on Cottage Road and Starr King Road, on the southern flank of Mount Starr King north of USA Route 2 and just east of the village center of Jefferson. The landscape and setting feature views of the White Mountains to the south. The cottages are surmised to have been designed, based on similarity to other work, by Alfred Barlow, who designed a major addition to the hotel. All of the cottages are in the Shingle style, with Queen Anne style porches.</p><br>
<p>The district&#39;s six cottages were added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places on October 31, 2005: Bashaba (14 Starr King Road), Beit-el-Hakeen / The Birches (25 Cottage Road), Onaway (18 Cottage Road), The Bungalow (38 Starr King Road), Wayonda (36 Cottage Road), and Wyndybrae (13 Cottage Road).</p><br>
<p>The Wilder-Holton House is a historic house museum at 226 Main Street in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Built in 1780, this two-story timber-frame house is believed to be the first two-story house built in the area, and to be the oldest surviving house in Coos County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The house is now owned by the Lancaster Historical Society, which operates it as a museum.</p><br>
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<p>The Wilder-Holton House is prominently located at the northern end of Lancaster&#39;s Main Street, on the north side of the triangular junction of United States Routes 2 and 3. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, covered by a hip roof and finished in wooden clapboards. It is roughly square in shape, presenting five-bay facades in two directions. The main entrance faces east, sheltered by a single-story porch extending across three bays. There are presently three chimneys, although the remains of a large central chimney are found in the basement. The interior is presently arranged as a center-hall plan, and includes a large ballroom space on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1780 by Jonas Wilder, and is believed to be the first two-story building to be erected in what is now Coos County. It is also the oldest known surviving house in the county, earlier single-story buildings having succumbed. The house was a prominent local meeting point, serving in the 1790s for religious services before a church was built, and as the site of town meetings. In the early 19th century it probably also served as a boarding house, primarily serving visitors to the nearby county courthouse. It was originally associated with a much larger agricultural land-holding, and was associated with farming until the early 20th century. It has been owned by the Lancaster Historical Society since at least the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The Carroll County Court House is a historic former courthouse at 20 Courthouse Square in Ossipee, New Hampshire. Built in 1916, it is the county&#39;s oldest surviving courthouse, and a prominent local example of Colonial Revival architecture. It housed county offices until the 1970s, was a courthouse until 2004, and now houses the Ossipee Historical Society. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007,</p><br>
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<p>The Carroll County Court House stands in Ossipee Village, on the south side of Courthouse Square near its junction with Old Route 28 and Browns Ridge Road. It is an I-shaped two-story structure, built out of brick with limestone trim. It is organized with wide sections at the front and rear, and a central joining section between them. The front section originally housed county offices, the central section the main courtroom, and the rear the offices of judges and other court-related facilities. Each section is covered by a hip roof. The main facade is three bays wide, with a shallow project central gabled section supported by paired Doric columns. Ground floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings with limestone keystones, and second-floor windows are set in rectangular openings with splayed lintels and keystones. The entrance is a double-leaf door with flanking sidelight windows and a large semi-oval transom window above.</p><br>
<p>The first courthouse built in what is now Carroll County was in 1839 on this site, when the area was still part of Strafford County. Carroll County was established in 1840, and that courthouse was selected as the county seat. This building was constructed in 1916 to meet increased needs for space. It was designed by Albert H. Dow, a native of nearby Tuftonboro who worked in Boston, Massachusetts. It underwent significant interior work in 1960, again to meet demand for more space, particularly for county offices. These were relocated to a new building in 1979, and the court facilities were moved to another new building in 2004. The building has since been maintained by the Ossipee Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Cotton Mountain Community Church, also known as the Wolfeborough, Brookfield and Wakefield Meetinghouse, is a historic church on Stoneham Road in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, near the town line with Brookfield. Built about 1852, it is a well-preserved example of a rural New England meeting house with vernacular Greek Revival style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Since 1957, when it stopped being used for services, it has been cared for by a local nonprofit group.</p><br>
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<p>The Cotton Mountain Community Church stands alone in a rural wooded area in far eastern Wolfeboro, on the north side of Stoneham Road a short way west of the town border with Brookfield. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation. The building corners are pilastered, which rise to a simple entablature. The front gable is fully pedimented. The front facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances flanking a central window. Each entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and framed by plain trim. The entrances lead into separate small vestibules, which give way to a single large chamber. Interior lighting is provided by kerosene lamps and chandelier, and the space is lined with bench pews facing a raised pulpit area.</p><br>
<p>The church was built about 1852 to serve local Methodist and Free Will Baptist congregations. It escaped major renovations in part because enrollments declined over the next 100 years; its only major alterations have been the replacement of a high pulpit with the present low platform, and the addition of the kerosene chandelier, both in 1901. Its congregations continued to decline, and were eventually absorbed into other area churches. The building was sold in 1957 to the Cotton Mountain Community Church Association, dedicated to its preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Early Settlers Meeting House is a historic church building at the junction of Granite and Foggs Ridge roads at Leighton Corners in the town of Ossipee, New Hampshire, United States. Built in the 1810s for a Free Will Baptist congregation and remodeled in 1856, it is a well-preserved example of a vernacular mid-19th century church. Now owned by the Ossipee Historical Society, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
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<p>The Early Settlers Meeting House is located in a rural area of southeastern Ossipee, at the southwest corner of Foggs Ridge Road and Granite Road. It is a vernacular, -story clapboarded wood-frame building set on a fieldstone foundation. The main facade, facing Granite Road, is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on the main floor and a window in the gable above. The entrances are each framed by simple surrounds and topped by transom windows. An open platform extends across the width of the building in front of that facade, set on granite blocks and fronted by a series of granite posts. The building corners have wide corner boards, rising to frieze boards extending along the sides. Each side has three sash windows.</p><br>
<p>The church was built sometime between 1809 and 1812, and was the first Free Will Baptist church in the town. Its entrance was originally at the center of the east facade (facing Fogg Ridge Road), and its interior was filled with box pews. Doctrinal disagreements led to a split in the congregation in the 1850s, with one branch departing to a new church elsewhere on Granite Road. The other group remained here, and undertook a restyling of this building, which was then in need of maintenance. The interior was updated with bench pews and a new pulpit area, and the exterior was altered, replacing the entrance with a window and building the present entrances. By the early 20th century the congregation had declined, and the building was sold to the Ossipee Historical Society in 1928.</p><br>
<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church is a historic church on Granite Road in Ossipee, New Hampshire. The wood-frame white clapboarded building was built in 1856–57, and is a fine little-altered local example of a vernacular Greek Revival country church. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
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<p>The First Free Will Baptist Church is located in far southeastern Ossipee, on the north side of Granite Road not far from the town line with Wakefield. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has simple but well-executed Greek Revival elements, including paneled corner pilasters and peaked lintels over the doors and windows. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances on the ground floor and three windows in the gallery level above. The interior has separate vestibules for the two entrances, and stairs to a gallery level. Most of the building is filled by the main auditorium, which has slip pews and a raised platform at the far end.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1856-57 for a congregation of the Free Will Baptists that split from the town&#39;s first congregation, which met in the Early Settlers Meeting House at Leightons Corner. Construction of this building was supervised by Joseph Nutter, one of the parishioners. The building was actively used for services until about 1920. The building remains in the hands of the society originally established for its upkeep, and has seen only modest alterations, such as the introduction of electric lighting.</p><br>
<p>Tuftonboro United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on New Hampshire Route 171 in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, United States. Built about 1853, it is one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical Greek Revival architecture in New Hampshire&#39;s Lakes Region. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
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<p>The Tuftonboro United Methodist Church is located in the rural village center of Tuftonboro, on the north side of New Hampshire 171 a short way east of its junction with Durgin Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A two-stage square tower rises from the roof ridge, with a plain first stage and a belfry stage topped by an octagonal spire. Both stages have pilastered corners and a corniced entablature; the belfry has rectangular openings topped by blind half round panels. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances, each flanked by pilasters, sidelight windows, and outer pilasters, and topped by entablatures and peaked cornices. Windows on the second level also have peaked cornices.</p><br>
<p>Tuftonboro&#39;s Methodist congregation first met in 1804, and its first church building was constructed in 1820. The present building was erected sometime between 1849 and 1854; the congregation ascribes its construction to 1853. The church is more architecturally elaborate than other churches built in the Lakes Region in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
