Peck-Porter House, Walpole

Name: Peck-Porter House
Address: Walpole, United States

#3 among attractions in Walpole

Greek Revival architecture

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The Peck-Porter House is a historic house at the corner of Main and Middle Streets in Walpole, New Hampshire. Built in 1839, it is an unusually elaborate and sophisticated example of Greek Revival architecture, given its small-town setting. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. ()

Built: 1839 (185 years ago)Coordinates: 43°4'41"N, 72°25'37"W

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Peck-Porter House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bellows Falls Canal, Bellows Falls Opera House, Vilas Bridge, Rockingham Free Public Library.

3.9 miN
Canal
Bellows Falls Canal, Bellows Falls
101 min walk • Bellows Falls Canal is a canal constructed to allow boat traffic to bypass Great Falls on the Connecticut River in Bellows Falls, Vermont. It was constructed by the Bellows Falls Canal Company and was one of the first canals in the United States. It was used for transport, to power mills, and later for hydroelectric power.
3.8 miN
Theater, Concerts and shows, Museum
Bellows Falls Opera House, Bellows Falls
98 min walk • The Bellows Falls Times Building is a historic newspaper plant on Bridge and Island Streets in Bellows Falls, Vermont. The complex of three buildings was developed in the 1930s by the Vermont Newspaper Corporation, and served as home for the Bellows Falls Times newspaper until 1965, when it was consolidated with other local newspapers.
4 miN
Bridge
Vilas Bridge, Bellows Falls
103 min walk • The Charles N. Vilas Bridge is a 635-foot two-span concrete deck arch bridge over the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls, Vermont and North Walpole, New Hampshire. It was built in 1930 and has been closed since March 19, 2009.
3.7 miN
Library
Rockingham Free Public Library, Bellows Falls
96 min walk • Rockingham Free Public Library is one of four Carnegie Libraries in the state of Vermont. The building, in Bellows Falls, Vermont, a village of Rockingham, Vermont, was designed by Boston architects McLean & Wright in Classical Revival style.
~610 ftNW
Museum, History museum, Greek Revival architecture
Walpole Academy, Walpole
3 min walk • The Walpole Academy is a historic former school building on Main Street in Walpole, New Hampshire. It is now owned by the Walpole Historical Society and operated as a local history museum.
3.2 miS
43°1'55"N • 72°25'28"W
Walpole Valley Farms, Walpole
82 min walk • Nature, Farm, Natural attraction
3.5 miN
Church
Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, Bellows Falls
90 min walk • The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is a historic chapel, located in the Oak Hill Cemetery off Pleasant Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Built about 1885, it is one of a small number of 19th-century cemetery chapels in the state, and is the most modestly decorated of those, with vernacular Gothic Revival elements.
~1020 ftNW
Greek Revival architecture
Stephen Rowe Bradley House, Walpole
5 min walk • The Stephen Rowe Bradley House is a historic house at 43 Westminster Street in Walpole, New Hampshire. The large Federal style mansion house was built c. 1808 for Francis Gardner, a lawyer and state legislator.
3.8 miN
Neighbourhood, Greek Revival architecture
Bellows Falls Neighborhood Historic District, Bellows Falls
99 min walk • The Bellows Falls Neighborhood Historic District encompasses a residential area of the village of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Located south of downtown Bellows Falls, the area has one of the largest concentrations of well-preserved 19th century residences in southern Vermont.
3.4 miN
Neighbourhood
Westminster Terrace Historic District, Bellows Falls
88 min walk • The Westminster Terrace Historic District encompasses a locally architecturally distinctive residential area on Westminster Terrace in Bellows Falls and Westminster, Vermont.
3.9 miN
Neighbourhood
Moore and Thompson Paper Mill Complex, Bellows Falls
100 min walk • The Moore and Thompson Paper Mill Complex is a major late 19th-century industrial site off Bridge Street in Bellows Falls, Vermont.