10-593: Newport Historic District or Newport Downtown Historic District may refer to: Newport Downtown Historic District (New Hampshire) Newport Historic District (Newport, Pennsylvania) Newport Historic District (Rhode Island) Newport Downtown Historic District (Newport, Vermont) Newport Historic District (Newport, Virginia) See also [ edit ] East Row Historic District , Newport, Kentucky Greater Newport Rural Historic District , Newport, Virginia Newport (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
20-599: A major fire. This building is now used mainly as a performing venue; the municipal offices are now located just outside the district on Sunapee Street. Also notable on the east side is the Isaac Reed House , one of the last private residences built in the area, and a particularly fine example of Italianate and Second Empire styling. Isaac Reed House The Isaac Reed House is a historic house at 30-34 Main Street in downtown Newport, New Hampshire . Built about 1869, it
30-475: A short way south of the Newport Opera House . It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior. The house is Second Empire in style, with a mansard roof punctured by dormers with central segmented-arch roofs. The main facade is nominally three bays wide, although the first floor is divided in two, with a porticoed entry to the left and an ornately bracketed bay window to
40-554: Is a good local example of Second Empire architecture, and an important visual element of the surrounding commercial downtown and civic area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and is a contributing property to the Newport Downtown Historic District . The Isaac Reed House is located opposite Newport's row of 19th-century commercial blocks, on the east side of Main Street
50-433: Is a three-story Federal-style brick building. The town gained in importance when Sullivan County was set off from Cheshire County in 1826, resulting in the construction of the records office, jail, and the first courthouse , all brick Federal-style buildings. on the east side of Main Street. The courthouse (now used for other purposes) stands on a hill set well back from Main Street. The west side of Main Street became
60-440: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Newport Downtown Historic District (New Hampshire) The Newport Downtown Historic District encompasses the 19th century heart of Newport, New Hampshire , the county seat of Sullivan County . The district includes the major commercial and civic (current and former) buildings which line Main Street between Depot Street and
70-587: The Sugar River . The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Although Newport was settled in 1765, its current center began to take shape with the construction of the Croydon Turnpike, along what is now Main Street. The area was soon lined with services for travelers. The oldest commercial building in the district, the Eagle Block at 64 Main Street, was built in 1825-26; it
80-460: The locus for commercial development, and now sports a series of buildings mostly built before 1930, anchored at one end by a modern state liquor store, and at the other end by a c. 1930 Worcester Lunch Car Company diner, which abuts the Eagle Block. The dominant feature of the east side is now the Newport Opera House building, which was designed by Hira R. Beckwith to serve as the courthouse and town hall, and replaced an 1872 building destroyed by
90-487: The right. The house was built about 1869 by Dr. Isaac Reed, a local dentist, and is an important visual element of the municipal/county cluster of buildings which stand immediately adjacent. There were originally unsympathetic additions to the rear, which were built to make the building a multi-unit residence; these additions were removed in the 1970s, when the town decided not to raze the property. Its destruction had been contemplated as part of an urban renewal project, but
100-446: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Newport Historic District . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newport_Historic_District&oldid=843795867 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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