12 and 14 Main started out in life as a town house and adjacent barn built in 1865 by Daniel B. Austin.

Later the property was owned by Thaddeus Richards who operated a slaughter house on Depot Street and used the barn for holding cattle.

In l953 Percy Lamson acquired the property, the cattle now a distant memory. Percy remodeled the front building into a 10-room office for Lamson Publishing Company and Atlantic Fisherman magazine, owned and operated by Percy and his son Gardner Lamson.

In 1961 Gardner Lamson acquired the buildings from his father. A merger of Atlantic Fisherman with a Maine publisher reduced the need for office space, and apartments rather than publishing became the focus of the property.

The building at 12 Main is Greek Revival, with a symmetrical facade, pilasters at cornices of the gabled roof and an old fashioned double-door entryway. Ornamental details include a canopy with dental molding, Victorian rococo curves and ball pendulum decoration.

14 Main, once a barn, now has a façade resembling a two-story colonial home and, in fact, outdoes most colonial type houses in Goffstown. Dental molding matches the moldings on the house at 14 Main. The front canopy entrance has antique Ionic columns taken from a Goffstown home built in 1889.

That house was bulldozed to make way for the erection of the St. Lawrence Church. Evelyn Lamson, wife of Gardner Lamson, saved the pillars and pilasters from destruction just in time to grace the 14 Main façade.

To view an apartment, 
contact Tom Lamson at:
Cell: 802-734-7366 
Email: tomlamson@me.com