At the end of North Main Street stands the Franklin Pierce Manse, a Greek Revival house of the mid-1830s, moved here from Montgomery Street in Concord in 1971 to prevent its demolition. This house displays characteristic Greek Revival detailing in its wide comer pilasters, its recessed doorway surrounded by sidelights an a transom sash, and its triangular pediment of the gable end of the roof. The plan of the house, with an offset doorway and stairhall and with the narrow end of the house facing the street, is both characteristic of many Greek Revival dwellings and is the beginning of the "Homestead House" from which continued into the early twentieth century. This house was owned by Franklin Pierce, 14 President of the United States and New Hampshire's only President, between 1842 and 1848.
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