The Central Business District of
Claremont, New Hampshire
Claremont is the only city in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 12,949 at the 2020 census. Claremont is a core city of the Lebanon–Claremont micropolitan area, a bi-state, four-county region in the upper Connec ...
, is centered on Broad Street Park and the
Claremont Opera House (aka City Hall), and the area between the park and the
Sugar River, whose power was responsible for Claremont's growth in the 19th century. The district was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1978.
Description and history
Claremont's Central Business District encompasses an area of about , centered on Broad Street Park and Tremont Square. The historic district includes buildings facing these two areas, as well as adjacent blocks of Sullivan, Pleasant and Tremont streets. The Claremont Opera House occupies a prominent central location, with the public library, main fire station, and
Universalist Church occupying prominent locations facing Broad Street Park. Commercial buildings, most dating to the late 19th century, line most of the remaining streets. The Hotel Claremont, also known as the Hotel Moody or the Moody Hotel, is an elaborate
Queen Anne/
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...
four-story block on Tremont Square.
Broad Street Park served as the town's historic common, and was laid out in the 1790s. In the 1830s, industrial concerns established the
Lower Village, about one mile to the west, where paper mills and other industrial concerns grew. The downtown business district grew organically until the 1880s, when an association of local business owners coordinated the formal development of Tremont Square, and its further growth into the 20th century.
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Greek Revival architecture in New Hampshire
Victorian architecture in New Hampshire
Claremont, New Hampshire
Historic American Engineering Record in New Hampshire
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire