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Tuftonboro United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on New Hampshire Route 171 in
Tuftonboro, New Hampshire Tuftonboro is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,467 at the 2020 census. Bounded on the southwest by Lake Winnipesaukee, Tuftonboro includes the villages of Tuftonboro Corner, Center Tuftonboro, Melvin ...
. Built about 1853, it is one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical
Greek Revival architecture The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.


Description and history

The Tuftonboro United Methodist Church is located in the rural village center of Tuftonboro, on the north side of NH 171 a short way east of its junction with Durgin Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A two-stage square tower rises from the roof ridge, with a plain first stage and a belfry stage topped by an octagonal spire. Both stages have pilastered corners and a corniced entablature; the belfry has rectangular openings topped by blind half round panels. The main facade is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances, each flanked by pilasters, sidelight windows, and outer pilasters, and topped by entablatures and peaked cornices. Windows on the second level also have peaked cornices. and Tuftonboro's Methodist congregation first met in 1804, and its first church building was constructed in 1820. The present building was erected sometime between 1849 and 1854; the congregation ascribes its construction to 1853. The church is more architecturally elaborate than other churches built in the Lakes Region in the mid-19th century.


See also

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Carroll County, New Hampshire


References

{{NRHP in Carroll County, New Hampshire Methodist churches in New Hampshire Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire Churches in Carroll County, New Hampshire National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, New Hampshire Tuftonboro, New Hampshire