Moses Greenwood House
Moses Greenwood House | ||
MPS Dublin MRA | | |
| NRHP reference No. | 83004036[1] | |
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| Added to NRHP | December 15, 1983 | |
The Moses Greenwood House, formerly the Dublin Inn, is a historic house at the corner of Pierce Road and Old County Road in
Description and history
The Moses Greenwood House is located in eastern Dublin, at the southeast corner of Old County and Pierce Roads. It is now a rambling 2+1⁄2-story frame structure, roughly H-shaped, but its shape is obscured by other additions and a single-story enclosed porch that encircles much of its exterior. Its roofs are studded with a variety of primarily gable-roofed dormers.[2]
The oldest portion of this house was built c.1783 by Moses Greenwood, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and is a fairly conventional four-bay wood-frame structure. After being the Greenwood family home for a century, it was acquired by Mary Metcalfe, who added one wing in 1899, and Adele Thayer, who added a second wing in 1910. These additions, Georgian Revival in styling, were sympathetic to the style of the original house. It opened as the Dublin Inn in 1921.[2]
In 1945, a group of American politicians, lawyers, and businessmen met at the inn, where they drafted the
See also
- Isaac Greenwood House
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "NRHP nomination for Moses Greenwood House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
