Built 1891 (1891) Opened 1891 Added to NRHP 17 March 1994 | NRHP Reference # 94000168 Area 6,100 m² | |
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Location 1800 Elm St., Manchester, New Hampshire Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Northeast Delta Dental St, Gill Stadium, Valley Cemetery, Daniel Cragin Mill, Ste Marie Church | ||
The Frank Pierce Carpenter House is a historic house at 1800 Elm Street on the north side of Manchester, New Hampshire. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in 1891, and is a fine local example of high-style Queen Anne architecture. It was built for Frank Carpenter, then the president of the Amoskeag Paper Company, and a major city benefactor, and probably designed by Edgar Allan Poe Newcomb. The house is roughly square in shape, with a three-story turret at its southeast corner and a projecting window bay at its southwest corner. A 2-1/2 story ell which originally housed service facilities projects to the west. The main (eastern) facade is three bays wide: the turret occupies the left bay, and the main entrance the center. The entry is sheltered by a single-story porch supported by clustered Tuscan columns (replacements c. 1970 for originals styled like those on the building's porte cochere).
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It was given to the American Red Cross in 1993 by Carpenter's heirs.