George Cheever Farm

Historic house in New Hampshire, United States
United States historic place
George Cheever Farm
42°57′19″N 72°7′15″W / 42.95528°N 72.12083°W / 42.95528; -72.12083
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built1860 (1860)
MPSHarrisville MRA
NRHP reference No.86003238[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 14, 1988

The George Cheever Farm is a historic farmstead at the corner of Nelson and Tolman Pond Roads in Harrisville, New Hampshire. This 1½-story wood-frame house was built in the early 1860s, and is a well-preserved example of a period farmhouse. It is architecturally distinctive because of a rear saltbox style addition, and its shed-roof dormers.[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

Description and history

The George Cheever Farm is located in a rural setting northwest of the village center of Harrisville, standing on a knoll close to the V-shaped junction of Nelson and Tolman Pond Roads. It is a 1½-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is three bays wide, with the left two obscured by an enclosed shed-roof porch. The front roof face is pierced by two shed-roof dormers, and the rear is extended by a saltbox-style ell, whose roof is at a lower pitch than the main roof. A single-story ell extends to the left side of the main block. The exterior styling of the house is vernacular, with simple corner boards and window surrounds.[2]

The house was built sometime between 1860 and 1863 by George Cheever, a farmer. The house is one of a modest number of mid-19th century farmhouses surviving in the town, and bears some resemblance to the slightly earlier Jabez Townsend House.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for George Cheever Farm". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
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