Description and history
The Isaac Reed House is located opposite Newport's row of 19th-century commercial blocks, on the east side of Main Street a short way south of the Newport Opera House. It is a -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 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 was abandoned when the town decided instead to preserve and revitalize the area's historic buildings.See also
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Isaac, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire Second Empire architecture in New Hampshire Houses completed in 1869 Houses in Sullivan County, New Hampshire 1869 establishments in New Hampshire National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire Newport, New Hampshire Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New Hampshire