Silver Lake Farm

Silver Lake Farm
Location Between Silver Lake and Seaver Rds. near intersection with Old Nelson Rd., Harrisville, New Hampshire
Coordinates 42°56′30″N 72°8′35″W / 42.94167°N 72.14306°W / 42.94167; -72.14306Coordinates: 42°56′30″N 72°8′35″W / 42.94167°N 72.14306°W / 42.94167; -72.14306
Area less than one acre
Built 1820 (1820)
MPS Harrisville MRA
NRHP Reference # 86003252[1]
Added to NRHP January 14, 1988

The Silver Lake Farm is a historic farmstead on Seaver Road in northwestern Harrisville, New Hampshire. It consists of a traditional New England farm complex, with a clapboarded farmhouse that was built c. 1820, a poultry shed, two early 20th-century barns, and a modern tractor shed. It is sited on a meadow (former farmland now out of production) above Silver Lake, and affords spectacular views of the lake and of Mount Monadnock. The farm was originally established by Paul Whitcomb Breed, whose family gave the lake its early name (Breed Pond). It was later owned by the Farwells and Seavers, both prominent in the civic activities of their times. Despite its active use until the 1970s, the farmhouse remained relatively unaltered, lacking even modern heating.[2]

The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Silver Lake Farm" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-05-02.


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