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Abbot-Downing Company was a coach and carriage builder in Concord, New Hampshire, which became known throughout the United States for its products — in particular the Concord coach. The business's roots went back to 1813, and it persisted in some form into the 1930s with the manufacture of motorized trucks and fire engines.
The term was first used for the coaches built by coach-builder J. Stephen Abbot and wheelwright Lewis Downing of the Abbot-Downing Company in Concord, New Hampshire, but later to be sometimes used generically. Like their predecessors, the Concords employed a style of suspension and construction particularly suited to North America's early 19th ...
In the 1980s the property was used by the Concord Coach Society (now the Abbot-Downing Historical Society) as a headquarters and museum facility. The shop building in particular is notable for its adaptive reuse (as blacksmithy, paint shop, and museum), and for its second floor ballroom space, an unusual location for that type of social space ...
The Lewis Downing Jr. House is a historic house at 33 Pleasant Street in Concord, New Hampshire, United States.Built in 1851, it was home for fifty years of Lewis Downing Jr., president of the Abbot-Downing Company, a nationally known manufacturer of coaches, and is the only surviving building associated with that business.
An Abbot-Downing Company coach City of Concord "The Abbot-Downing Company began in 1813 when Lewis Downing founded a 'waggon' factory, located here from 1816 to 1828. In 1828 he was joined by J. Stephens Abbot.
Abbot-Downing Historical Society, New Hampshire Acworth Historical Society, New Hampshire Albany Historical Society, New Hampshire Alexandria Historical Society, New Hampshire Allenstown NH Historical Society 1994 [22] Alstead Historical Society, New Hampshire 1937 [22] Alton Historical Society, New Hampshire
Location of Andover in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Andover, Massachusetts.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Andover, Massachusetts, United States.
John Butterfield (November 18, 1801 – November 14, 1869) was a transportation pioneer in the mid-19th century in the American Northwest and Southwest. He founded many companies, including American Express which is still in operation today.