Manchester Historic Association Photoprint Collection
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#2000-500-096, “130 Mast Road, Octagon House”
There were three octagon shaped homes built in Manchester,
New Hampshire by Orson Fowler. The house
at 130 Mast Road was built about 1858.
Another was built at 481 Hanover Street in 1885, and one at 585 Beech
Street about 1890. All these homes used
masonry, brick or poured concrete.
Joseph N. Prescott was an overseer at the Amoskeag Mills and
retired in 1850 to the village of Piscataquog (the area near Mast Road). At the time he had his home built, Mast Road
was mostly farmland. He was listed as a
farmer at this address in city directories.
He was born 17 March 1803, the son of William Prescott and Sally
Young. He married on 27 March 1827 to
his cousin, Mary Smith, the daughter of Jonathan Smith and Joanna Young.
An octagon shaped house must have been a difficult house to
build with Lego bricks. This model of
the Joseph N. Prescott House at 130 Mast Road is part of the permanent exhibit
of Legos at the SEE Museum in the Millyard, which is much better known for the
huge Lego replica of the millyard than for the examples of Manchester homes replicated in Lego bricks.
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More Manchester landmarks on exhibit at the SEE Museum in the Millyard
For more information:
The Manchester Historic Association http://www.manchesterhistoric.org/
The SEE Science Center, Manchester, New Hampshire http://www.see-sciencecenter.org/
The Prescott Memorial: Or, A Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott
Families in America, by William Prescott, Henry W. Dutton & Son,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1870, Volume 1, page 415.
My previous blog post about the Lego Installation at the SEE Science Center
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