The Townsend Farm is a historic farmstead on East Harrisville Road in

Dublin, New Hampshire Dublin is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2020 census. It is home to Dublin School and ''Yankee'' magazine. History In 1749, the Masonian proprietors granted the town as "Monadnock No. ...

. Built about 1780 and enlarged about 1850 and again at the turn of the 20th century, it is one of Dublin's older houses, notable as the home and studio of artist George DeForest Brush, one of the leading figures of Dublin's early 20th-century art colony. The house was listed on the

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in 1983.

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The Townsend Farm is located in a rural setting in eastern Dublin, on the east side of East Harrisville Road a short way north of its junction with Cobb Meadow Road. The house is a rambling multi-section wood-frame structure, oriented roughly perpendicular to the road. Nearest the road is a -story gable-roofed section with

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features. It has the main building entrance in the rightmost bay of the south facade, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a corniced

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. To the right of this section is a 5-bay -story

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with a secondary entrance at its center. Further ells extend east and north from that section. The property was developed in several stages, beginning with the construction of the second section c. 1780 by Abel Wilder. The main block of the farmhouse was built c. 1850 by Jonathan Townsend. The property was acquired c. 1890 by the artist George DeForest Brush, who adapted it for use as his principal residence. Brush's studio, a large shed structure located near the property's barn, was destroyed by fire in 1930. Brush was a leading figure in Dublin's art colony, playing host to other artists and luminaries of the art world, including

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