Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Map of New England. A Map of New England, officially entitled A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places, is an early regional map of New England, published ...
One of the finest early-Georgian brick houses in New England: Newington Meeting House Newington: 1717 Oldest church building in New Hampshire James House Hampton 1723 First period house, dated by dendrochronology [6] Jaquith House (Farley Garrison House) Gilmanton: c.1725 [7] Building was moved to NH from Billerica, Massachusetts, in 2010. Once ...
The Cape Cod style homes were a common home in the early 17th of New England colonists, these homes featured a simple, rectangular shape commonly used by colonists. [3] Dutch Colonial structures, built primarily in the Hudson River Valley, Long Island, and northern New Jersey, reflected construction styles from Holland and Flanders and used ...
Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860. Knopf. 1993. [12] Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes. Historic New England. 2009. The Best Ever! Parades in New England, 1788-1940. Bauhan Publishing. 2022. [13]
These are known as First Period houses of the early to mid–second generation as they were built by the children of the first settlers in the Massachusetts Bay colony. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During this time, buildings in New England were increasingly designed and built by regionally trained carpenters and were only occasionally influenced by new ...
Density of distribution of listings in New Hampshire in January 2025. This is a directory of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire. There are more than 800 listed sites in New Hampshire. Each of the 10 counties in New Hampshire has at least 30 listings on the National Register.
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites— Canterbury Shaker Village , Harrisville Historic District , and the MacDowell Colony —are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts .
The Portsmouth Downtown Historic District encompasses the historic urban core of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.With a history dating to the 17th century, Portsmouth was New Hampshire's principal seaport and the center of its economy for many decades, and the architecture of its urban center is reflective of nearly four centuries of history.