David Dexter House

Coordinates: 43°22′37″N 72°20′16″W / 43.37694°N 72.33778°W

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David Dexter House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	Lincoln Heights, Claremont, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°22′37″N 72°20′16″W / 43.37694°N 72.33778°W / 43.37694; -72.33778
Area	less than one acre
Built	1790 (1790)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	79000213^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 29, 1979

The David Dexter House is a historic house on Lincoln Heights in northern Claremont, New Hampshire. Built about 1790, it is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture, and was home to David Dexter, whose early mills were the first in the city's industrial history. The house was moved to its present location in 1975 to avoid demolition, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1] It now houses apartments.

Description and history

The David Dexter House is located on a rise now known as Lincoln Heights, north of the Broad Street crossing of the Sugar River. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Although not at its original location, it is set on a modern foundation that includes granite blocks from its original foundation. It is five bays wide and four deep, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the entrance on the front facade. The ground-floor windows have projecting cornices, and the entry is framed by an elaborate Federal style surround. The interior, in particular the staircase, also has fine Federal period details.^[2]

The house was built c. 1790 by David Dexter, who along with his brother Stephen established the first mills on the Sugar River in Clarement, on land that later became the Monadnock Mills. The house was originally located nearer the river, and was later used as a boarding house for mill workers. In the 1970s the house became the focal point for a long-running preservation debate, whose result was that the building was relocated to its present location, minus a later ell and its original central chimney, in 1975, to make way for an urban redevelopment project.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for David Dexter House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Landmarks	Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Salmon P. Chase Birthplace
Districts	Central Business District Charlestown Main Street Historic District Lower Village District Monadnock Mills Newport Downtown Historic District North Charlestown Historic District Washington Common Historic District
Buildings	Acworth Silsby Library Backside Inn Blow-Me-Down Grange Charlestown Town Hall Claremont City Hall Claremont Warehouse No. 34 Farwell School Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7 Meriden Town Hall Mothers' and Daughters' Club House Plainfield Town Hall Protectworth Tavern Richards Free Library Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill Sullivan County Courthouse Town Hall and Courthouse Unity Town Hall
Houses	Burford House Capt. John Gunnison House Cote House Covit House David Dexter House Durham House Garber House Giffin House Isaac Reed House Janicke House Knights-Morey House Lear House Louis St. Gaudens House and Studio Nettleton House Pike House Purnell House Scranton House Seavey House Stelljes House Welcome Acres William Rossiter House Williamson House Windswept Acres-Powers House
Places of worship	Acworth Congregational Church English Church First Baptist Church of Cornish First Universalist Chapel Langdon Meeting House Lempster Meetinghouse South Congregational Church Springfield Town Hall and Howard Memorial Methodist Church Trinity Church
Site	Hunter Archeological Site
Structures	Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge Cold River Bridge Corbin Covered Bridge Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge‡ Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge Kenyon Bridge Meriden Bridge Pier Bridge Prentiss Bridge Wright's Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state. Entries in italics have been removed from the register.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

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