File:BASEMENT AND FOUNDATION PLAN - Harrington-Smith Block, 18-52 Hanover Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH HABS NH,6-MANCH,6-15.tif

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BASEMENT AND FOUNDATION PLAN - Harrington-Smith Block, 18-52 Hanover Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH
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Fanning, John T
Head and Dowst
Emerson, J B
Garland and Brown
Cate and Dickey
Knox, Frank
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BASEMENT AND FOUNDATION PLAN - Harrington-Smith Block, 18-52 Hanover Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH
Depicted place New Hampshire; Hillsborough County; Manchester
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS NH,6-MANCH,6-15
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Completed in 1881 from designs by John T. Fanning. It was built in the historic downtown core of Manchester to combine commercial/retail street floor space with offices in the upper floors and two ells and a grand opera house joined to the north side of the main block. The opera house portion of the block, owned separately since the time of construction, was totally destroyed by fires in March, 1985 along with the west ell. The building is significant as one of only three known extant buildings designed by architect and nationally distinguished hydraulic engineer, John T. Fanning. The block derives significance in the field of journalism as the publishing and printing site if important local and statewide newspapers from 1884-1930...
  • Survey number: HABS NH-209
  • Building/structure dates: 1881 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1985 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nh0191.photos.105266p
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Object location42° 59′ 44.02″ N, 71° 27′ 19.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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