Manchester Historic Association - Manchester, NH - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

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Manchester Historic Association
Victory Park Historic District
Manchester, New Hampshire

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The VICTORY PARK Historic District comprises 55 acres. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 due to the significance of the social and architectural history of the park and the buildings in its vicinity.

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company laid out the streets in this part of the city in 1838. This park, originally called Concord Common, was the first of six parks deeded to the city by the Amoskeag for the benefit of its citizens. The park was originally twice this size, extending one more block to the west. At different times the park was used as a playground for children, as the site of an early farmers’smarket, and at one time it was divided up into garden plots for the neighbors to use.

The park was renamed Victory Park in 1929 as a memorial to the allied victory in World War I.

The "Manchester Historic Association" at 129 Amherst St., on the west side of the park, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as part of the Victory Park Historic District, with the following description, in part:

"Facing Amherst Street, on the south side of Victory Park, the Manchester Historic Association is a two story, flat-roofed block, designed by Edward Tilton but constructed in a more restrained Classical style which typifies its construction date of 1931. The smooth limestone exterior alternates a row of large square stones with a course of more narrow rectangular blocks. Between the seven facade bays, deeply incised vertical lines on the edges of the larger blocks give the impression of pilaster strips, enhanced by capitals at the top. The center entrance is distyle in antis with two, two story fluted Doric columns."