Beacon Street, also known as the former New Hampshire State Prison Warehouse, is a historic commercial building at Beacon Street in
Concord, New Hampshire. Built in 1860 and enlarged in 1868, it is the only major surviving element of New Hampshire's first state prison complex, which was mostly torn down in the 1890s. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
Description and history
Beacon Street is located on the west side of downtown Concord, extending north–south on the west side of a block bounded by Beacon, Tremont, and Crosby Streets. It is a two-story brick building, in length, with a single-story projection on the west side, facing Crosby Street. The long facade is basically divided into 15 bays articulated by brick pilasters. Each bay is filled with a combination of windows or doors and windows, originally with some regularity, but with many subsequent alterations. Original window openings were rectangular, with granite sills and lintels, but several have been altered to accommodate doors, and some bays now have large garage-style doors on the ground floor.
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The building was built in 1860, with an addition on the north side added in 1868. Its original function was to provide a workshop for prisoners in the adjacent correctional facility. It served in this capacity until the entire prison complex was closed and sold by the state in 1880. In the 1890s the bulk of the prison was demolished by the ]Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. From modest beginnings it grew throughout the 19th century into the largest cotton textile plant in the world.
At its peak, Amos ...
, which used its finished stone elements for construction projects in Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
. This building remained, and thereafter served a variety of commercial and industrial uses before being converted to office space.
See also
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References
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Commercial buildings completed in 1860
Buildings and structures in Concord, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Concord, New Hampshire