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The Franklin Pierce House was a historic house at 52 South Main Street in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.Built in 1852, it was a significant local example of Second Empire architecture, and was one of two surviving Concord homes of President Franklin Pierce at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]
Pierce Manse in winter. The Pierce Manse is a historic house museum located in Concord, New Hampshire. It was the home of the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, who lived there from 1842 to 1848, [1] not long before his presidency.
1852 daguerreotype of Franklin Pierce. Franklin Pierce was born in 1804 as the son of noted New Hampshire politician Benjamin Pierce. [1] In the 1820s, after graduating from Bowdoin College, Pierce entered into a lengthy career in law and politics, and by the late 1830s, he had served stints in the New Hampshire General Court, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States ...
Franklin Pierce House may refer to a home of Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States: Pierce Manse , at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842 to 1848 Franklin Pierce House (South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire) , at 52 South Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1856 to 1869 ...
The Concord Historic District encompasses the least altered portion of the historic heart of Concord, New Hampshire.The 25-acre (10 ha) district, located just north of the modern commercial and civic heart of the city, includes the city's oldest surviving house, the site of its first religious meetinghouse, and the Pierce Manse, a historic house museum that was home to President Franklin ...
Franklin Pierce went on to serve in the Mexican-American war, and upon his return home, they lived a quiet life in Concord, New Hampshire, before the Democratic Party named Franklin their ...
Site of home of President Franklin Pierce, 1856–1869, and place where he died. Burned down in 1981. [ 8 ] Not to be confused with Pierce Manse at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Pierce's home during 1842–1848.
The house is located on the east side of Washington Road (New Hampshire Route 31), about 100 yards north of its intersection with New Hampshire Route 9, on a 13-acre (5.3 ha) property in the Lower Village area of Hillsborough. It is a two-story hip-roofed wood frame structure whose main block was built in 1804.