Buckminster-Kingsbury Farm
Buckminster-Kingsbury Farm is a historic brick farmhouse at 80 Houghton Ledge Road in Roxbury, New Hampshire. Built around 1825, it shows simple Federal styling with Greek Revival touches. The main house is two and a half stories tall with a gabled roof, and it has two one-story wood-frame additions that likely predate the main block. The property covers about 13 acres, mostly wooded, with a nearby 19th-century barn, foundation remnants of older buildings, and a 19th-century wellhead.
The farm sits in northwestern Roxbury at the end of a dirt road that continues from near Granite Gorge Ski Area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
History: Roxbury was incorporated in 1813 from neighboring towns. Early settlement was by veterans of the French and Indian War who received land grants. William Stoddard Buckminster bought land there in 1820. One of the early additions to the house, a post-and-beam wooden cape, may have been the first structure on the property in the 1790s. Buckminster’s son David ran the farm until the 1860s, then moved to Keene and sold the property in 1878 to Elbridge Kingsbury. The Kingsburys, from another family of early settlers, operated the farm until 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s it was rented as a summer camp, and it was sold out of the Kingsbury family in 1946.
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