Emerson Estate
Chestnut Manor
The original house had many other interesting structures added to it, built by Isaac Adams, the inventor of the power printing press, and (at the time) the wealthiest man in the State of New Hampshire. This large estate home is also listed with the National Register of Historic Places. It has 8 rooms of living area, 9 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 enclosed porches; all marble fireplaces, with the exception of one soapstone, and one brick fireplace in the kitchen, 4 stairways, one of which is a circular staircase leading to what was once a bell tower when the property was run as a school.
In addition to the main home there is an "Ice House," a uniquely built pumping tower which supplied the water from a cistern many years ago; now inoperable, there is presently no water. There are open sheds and 6 attached post-and-beam barns, 2 of which are partially restored. Isaac Adams must have had a fanciful nature, for one of these large barns has a bowling alley on the upper level.
Emerson Estate
Chestnut Manor
The original house had many other interesting structures added to it, built by Isaac Adams, the inventor of the power printing press, and (at the time) the wealthiest man in the State of New Hampshire. This large estate home is also listed with the National Register of Historic Places. It has 8 rooms of living area, 9 bedrooms, 7 baths, 2 enclosed porches; all marble fireplaces, with the exception of one soapstone, and one brick fireplace in the kitchen, 4 stairways, one of which is a circular staircase leading to what was once a bell tower when the property was run as a school.
In addition to the main home there is an "Ice House," a uniquely built pumping tower which supplied the water from a cistern many years ago; now inoperable, there is presently no water. There are open sheds and 6 attached post-and-beam barns, 2 of which are partially restored. Isaac Adams must have had a fanciful nature, for one of these large barns has a bowling alley on the upper level.