Leavitt Farm

Leavitt Farm
Location 103 Old Loudon Rd., Concord, New Hampshire
Area 12.7 acres (5.1 ha)
Built 1847 (1847)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 82001692[1]
Added to NRHP March 11, 1982

Leavitt Farm is a historic farmstead at 103 Old Loudon Road in eastern Concord, New Hampshire. It consists of three 19th century farm buildings, including the c. 1847 Greek Revival farmhouse, a large c. 1888 two story wood frame shop, and a wood frame barn, as well as a 19th-century privy which has been converted into a well pumphouse. These buildings were built by Jonathan Leavitt, a farmer and blacksmith, and were later owned by his son Almah, a sign painter. The property was in the 1980s used by the Concord Coach Society (now the Abbot-Downing Historical Society) as a headquarters and museum facility. The shop building in particular is notable for its adaptive reuse (as blacksmithy, paint shop, and museum), and for its second floor ballroom space, an unusual location for that type of social space.[2]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Leavitt Farm" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-06.


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