Description and history
The district includes properties along Main Street between White Street and Arlington Street to the north, and Crescent Place and Summer Street to the south. Its principal features include the Renaissance-revival style Haverhill High School building, now Haverhill City Hall (C.Willis Damon, 1909); the 18th and 19th century town common (now known as G.A.R. Park) with its bronze statue of the colonial heroine Hannah Duston (Calvin Weeks, 1879); and three Romanesque Revival style churches including, the Italianate First Parish Meetinghouse, now Armenian Church ( Alpheus C. Morse, 1848); the Germanic First Congregational Church (John Stevens, 1859); and the Richardsonian romanesque style First Baptist Church (Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb, 1883). In addition to being the city's center of civic and religious activity, the district includes some of its finest houses, built by prominent local businessmen. The Carleton House at 185 Main Street is a particularly high-quality Italianate house, with Tuscan pilasters, bracketed deep eaves, and molded window hoods with bracketing. The Hunking House, 160 Main Street, exemplifies the evolution of architecture: built as a typical Greek Revival house, it was moved to its present location in 1871 and expanded with Italianate details, and remodeled again with Classical Revival details in 1923 when it was converted for use by the localSee also
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Historic districts in Essex County, Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Haverhill, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts