New Hampton Town House
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New Hampton Town House is a historic meeting house
at the junction of Town House Road and Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire
.
The meeting house was built from 1789-1798 with support from Congregationalists living in the community. After difficulties arose with completing the project, the town assisted with funding the building in return for using the meeting house for town meetings. After the town subsidized the Congregationalists' building, the Free Will Baptists in the town built their own meeting house nearby, the Dana Meeting House
. Eventually, the Congregationalists stopped using the building. The New Hampton Town House was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1998.
Meeting house
A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes secular buildings which function like a town or city hall, and buildings used for religious meetings, particularly of some non-conformist Christian denominations....
at the junction of Town House Road and Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire
New Hampton, New Hampshire
New Hampton is a town in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,165 at the 2010 census. A winter sports resort area, New Hampton is home to George Duncan State Forest and to the New Hampton School, a private preparatory school established in 1821.The primary village in...
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The meeting house was built from 1789-1798 with support from Congregationalists living in the community. After difficulties arose with completing the project, the town assisted with funding the building in return for using the meeting house for town meetings. After the town subsidized the Congregationalists' building, the Free Will Baptists in the town built their own meeting house nearby, the Dana Meeting House
Dana Meeting House
Dana Meeting House is a historic meeting house on Dana Hill Road in New Hampton, New Hampshire....
. Eventually, the Congregationalists stopped using the building. The New Hampton Town House was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1998.