National Register of Historic Places

Central Business District

Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Listed
February 21, 1978
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
78003454

About this property

The Central Business District of Claremont, New Hampshire, is centered on Broad Street Park and the Claremont Opera House (a.k.a. City Hall), and the area between the park and the Sugar River, whose power was responsible for Claremont's growth in the 19th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Claremont's Central Business District encompasses an area of about 40 acres (16 ha), centered on Broad Street Park and Tremont Square. The historic district includes buildings facing these two areas, as well as adjacent blocks of Sullivan, Pleasant and Tremont streets. The Claremont Opera House occupies a prominent central location, with the public library, main fire station, and Universalist Church occupying prominent locations facing Broad Street Park. Commercial buildings, most dating to the late 19th century, line most of the remaining streets. The Hotel Claremont, also known as the Hotel Moody or the Moody Hotel, is an elaborate Queen Anne/Colonial Revival four-story block on Tremont Square. Broad Street Park served as the town's historic common, and was laid out in the 1790s. In the 1830s, industrial concerns established the Lower Village, about one mile to the west, where paper mills and other industrial concerns grew. The downtown business district grew organically until the 1880s, when an association of local business owners coordinated the formal development of Tremont Square, and its further growth into the 20th century. National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NH-1, "Claremont Village Industrial District, Claremont, Sullivan County, NH", 48 photos, 1 color transparency, 4 measured drawings, 3 data pages, 8 photo caption pages HAER No. NH-1-A, "Claremont Village Industrial District, City Hall-Opera House", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page HAER No. NH-1-B, "Claremont Village Industrial District, Moody Hotel", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page

Location

Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
43.37203, -72.33664

Categories

COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTCOMMERCEPOLITICS/GOVERNMENTARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

Claremont City Hall
Industrial
0 mi
Monadnock Mills
Listed
0.1 mi
Dexter, David, House
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0.3 mi
Rossiter, William, House
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0.4 mi
Lower Village District
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0.5 mi

Nearby Battles

Fort Number Four Attack 1744
1744Colonial
2.7 mi
Fort Number Four Siege 1747
1747Colonial
2.7 mi
Fort Number Four (Charlestown NH) — King George's War
1746Colonial
10.1 mi
King George's War – Fort Number Four Siege 1747
1747Colonial
10.6 mi

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When was Central Business District listed on the National Register?

Central Business District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1978.

What type of historic resource is Central Business District?

Central Business District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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