The Hill–Lassonde House was a historic house at 269 Hanover Street in
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1850, it was a well-preserved example of
Italianate styling. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1985,
at which time it was still owned by Hill's descendants.
[ The house and carriage house were demolished in July 2016.][ Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160708125608/https://www.unionleader.com/article/20160707/news50/160709515/]
Description and history
The Hill–Lassonde House was located east of downtown Manchester, on the south side of Hanover Street opposite Bronstein Park. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof and Italianate styling. The roof eave was deep and studded with brackets. The main facade was three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a portico supported by fluted square columns and pilasters, with brackets also found in its roof eave. A series of ells extended to the rear, and the property included a period carriage house
A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.
In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...
with cupola
In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.
The word derives, via Italian, from ...
. The interior had high-quality period woodwork, with some alterations dating to the early 20th century.machinist
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, on land he had purchased in 1847. The house was typical of houses built during this period, which was a boom time in the city, producing a large number of houses of this type. Burgess sold the house in 1855 to Varnum Hill, in whose family it remained at least into the 1980s. Ownership by a single family contributed to its state of preservation relative to similar houses nearby, which were often demolished or extensively altered.[ This house was demolished in 2016.][
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See also
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References
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Italianate architecture in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1850
Houses in Manchester, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Manchester, New Hampshire
Demolished buildings and structures in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures demolished in 2016