Historic places in Harrisville, New Hampshire
Harrisville in Cheshire County has 31 properties on the National Register of Historic Places: 25 buildings, 6 districts. The first was listed in 1971 and the most recent in 1988. The most common areas of significance here are architecture, industry, agriculture. 1 is a National Historic Landmark: Harrisville Historic District.
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Harrisville Historic District
Harrisville Historic District is a well-preserved historic New England mill village located in the southwest part of New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
Town of Harrisville and its environs · NPS record #71000072
Beech Hill Summer Home District (also See Also:Harrisville Rural District)
The Beech Hill Summer Home District encompasses a collection of six early 20th century summer houses in Harrisville, New Hampshire, built on a ridge overlooking Dublin Pond with views of nearby Mount Monadnock. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003079
Chesham Village District
Chesham is an unincorporated community within the town of Harrisville in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Yellow Wings, Seaver, Chesham, and Marienfield Rds. · NPS record #86003102
Harrisville Rural District
The Harrisville Rural District in Harrisville, New Hampshire was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [Wikipedia]
Roughly along Venable, Old Harrisville, New Harrisville, and Bonds Corner Rds. · NPS record #86003078
Pottersville District
The Pottersville District encompasses the earliest non-Native settlement in Harrisville, New Hampshire, as well as sites of some of the town's earliest industrial activities. [Wikipedia]
Roughly intersection of Roxbury and Meadow Rds., and along Brown Rd. NE of Chesham Rd. · NPS record #86003096
Silver Lake District
The Silver Lake District is a historic district encompassing a summer resort area along the southern section of Silver Lake in Harrisville, New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
Roughly along Old Nelson, Eastside, and Westside Rds. · NPS record #86003100
Acre (The) (also The Maki House)
The Acre is a historic house at the corner of Main Street and Dublin Road in Harrisville, New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
S of lower Harrisville village at S-curve in road to Dublin · NPS record #86003257
Adams Farm (also The MacVeagh Farmhouse)
With a construction history dating to about 1780, and its later association with the nearby Fasnacloich estate, it has more than two centuries of ownership by just two families. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003246
Adams, John, Homestead-Wellscroft (also Wellscroft Farm)
The oldest portion of the farm's main house is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure built in the 1770s. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003250
Aldworth Manor (also Mountain Missionary)
Aldworth Manor, also known as the Arthur E. Childs House, is a historic summer estate house in rural Harrisville, New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
On hill above IP-14, N side of Chesham-Harrisville Rd. · NPS record #86003244
Bancroft, Timothy, House
Located in a rural area once known as Mosquitoville, this c. 1785 wood-frame house was built by Timothy Bancroft, who operated a sawmill nearby that was one of the town's major industries for nearly a century. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003241
Beal, Persia, House
It is now the Harrisville Inn. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003243
Bemis, Elbridge G., House
The two-story Greek Revival frame house is one of a pair of houses built for the Bemis brothers (the other is the nearby George Bemis House), and is one of a few well-preserved houses of that period in the town. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003247
Bemis, George, House
Built in 1852, it is a good local example of Greek Revival architecture, and a near duplicate of the adjacent Elbridge G. Bemis House. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003248
Cheever, George, Farm
This 1½-story wood-frame house was built in the early 1860s, and is a well-preserved example of a period farmhouse. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003238
Clymer House
Constructed in 1932, it is a finely crafted example of Colonial Revival architecture, built in conscious imitation of an earlier form that might have occupied the same site. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003239
Eaton, Moses, Jr., House (also The Willard C. Richardson House)
The Moses Eaton Jr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003106
Farwell, Corban C., Homestead
The Corban C. Farwell Homestead is a historic house at the junction of Breed and Cricket Hill roads in Harrisville, New Hampshire, United States. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003253
Fasnacloich
Fasnacloich is a historic country estate in Harrisville, New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
Four Hill Rd. N of Dublin town line · NPS record #86003245
Gilchrest (also The Gilchrest Homestead)
Gilchrest is a historic farmstead on New Hampshire Route 137 in Harrisville, New Hampshire, United States. [Wikipedia]
NH 137 · NPS record #86003105
Glenchrest
Glenchrest is a historic farmstead on New Hampshire Route 137 in Harrisville, New Hampshire, United States. [Wikipedia]
NH 137 · NPS record #86003104
Kendall Cottage (also Silver Lake Cottage)
Built in 1798, it is a well-preserved example of an early Cape-style hill country farmhouse, and one of a small number of surviving 18th-century buildings in the town. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003251
Needham House
Built in 1845, it is a modest but well-preserved local example of Greek Revival styling. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003254
Point Comfort
Point Comfort is a historic house on South Skatutakee Road in Harrisville, New Hampshire. [Wikipedia]
S. Skatutakee Rd. · NPS record #86003256
Raubold House
Completed in 1901, it is a good example of a vernacular house built for immigrant mill workers. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003242
Silver Lake Farm
Established about 1820, it was a highly successful local farm, serving first businesses as far off as Keene, and then the local summer resort trade at nearby Silver Lake. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003252
Smith-Mason Farm (also Brookside Cozy Camp)
First developed in the late 18th century, the property has been adaptively used as a farm, summer estate, and family residence, representing major periods in Harrisville's development. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003255
Stationmaster's House
Built in 1896, it is one of the few surviving elements of the town's historic railroad infrastructure. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003108
Townsend, Jabez, House
Built in 1853, it is a good local example of a rural Greek Revival farmhouse. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003107
Wildwood Cottage
Built in the 1860s, this 1+1⁄2-story Greek Revival cottage is one of two surviving houses associated with a small-scale industrial area known as "Mosquitoville". It was probably the residence of the owners of the sawmill at the site. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003240
Willard Homestead
Built about 1787 and enlarged several times, it is notable as representing both the town's early settlement history, and its summer resort period of the early 20th century. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #86003249
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