Windswept Acres, or the Powers House, is a historic house on New Hampshire Route 31 in Goshen, New Hampshire. Built about 1800, it is one of Goshen's oldest houses, and one of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the community. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
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| Location | NH 31, Goshen, New Hampshire |
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| Coordinates | 43°15′38″N 72°07′11″W / 43.26059°N 72.11983°W |
| Area | 48 acres (19 ha) |
| Built | 1800 |
| MPS | Plank Houses of Goshen New Hampshire TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001325[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 21, 1985 |
Description and history
editWindswept Acres is located in a rural setting in southern Goshen, on the east side of New Hampshire Route 31 about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of its junction with New Hampshire Route 10. It is a 1+1⁄2-story Cape style plank-frame house, seven bays wide, with a gabled roof and shingled exterior. Its front entry is off-center, and is framed by simple molding and topped by a four-light transom window. There are two sash windows to its left and four to its right. A three-bay ell extends from the south of the main block, and there is an enclosed porch attached to the rear. A garage is connected to the north side of the house by a breezeway.[2]
Built about 1800, the house is one of the oldest houses in Goshen. It is built with a distinctive horizontal plank framing method (as distinguished from other local examples where the framing is vertical) laid across a more typical box frame.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Windswept Acres-Powers House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-06-06.