Under Utilized Infrastructure in Nashua – My Top 5

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Areas I would like to see rehabbed, reused, and functional in Nashua.  These are all downtown or close to it…not in any order of preference.  Your thoughts?

The Franklin Mills

The Franklin Street Mill

1. This area of Nashua is one of my favorites.  It’s for sale too.

1870 Fire Station - AKA Arts and Science Center

1870 Fire Station – AKA Arts and Science Center

2. Many a memory of the Arts and Science Center.  Great location close to the library. http://jennifercote.info/nashuas-past-central-fire-station/

Mohawk Tannery(before the fire)

Mohawk Tannery(before the fire)

3. Ah, Little Florida…a hidden neighborhood.  Let’s do something with this piece of land!

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Behind the Picker Building

Behind the Picker Building

4. Again, mill building.  The potential is fantastic!

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The Greeley House

5. Yes, I have a fascination with Mill Buildings. This is the back of the Franklin Mills and that beautiful Greeley House.  This one is for sale too.


It’s best to walk around to really appreciate these areas…get out of the car!  I’ve blogged about a couple of them and had the pictures already.  The mill building area west of Main St (the area the Broad St Parkway will be heading into) has so much potential, so much history.

Don’t just look at the rubble, the skeletons of old buildings, the weeds and overgrowth…imagine the potential of what this area could be…please.

One more post: The End of the Hometown

-Just my thoughts. -Jenn

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The End of the Hometown

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When asked where’s your hometown, how do you respond: the one you were born in, or the one you grew up in?

Seeing as the median duration in a residence is only 5.2 years* most of us have moved multiple times since birth.  So people aren’t tied to one location in today’s mobile society and many are missing that connection to a town.

I would always respond that I was born in Lowell, MA but moved a couple times before Nashua…which is where I grew up.  I have a connection to both, but my hometown is Nashua.

So I ask the question in my next post: What is home?

It’s just something I’ve been thinking about, the loss of the hometown.

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*https://www.census.gov/sipp/p70s/p70-66.pdf  page 4 “Seasonality of Mobility and Duration of Residence” Household Economic Studies  By Kristin A. Hansen

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Nashua’s Mill Revival

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The Mill-yard Smoke Stack – the green at the bottom of this picture is all the crumbled bricks from one of the buildings being razed.

It’s finally happening.  I grew up in Nashua and have always loved the downtown area.  Back in high school (when there was 1), I would take the city bus to the downtown station and walk up Main Street to my part-time job at an eye doctors office on Concord Street.  My stops included the soda counter at Woolworth’s, Espresso Pizza, Alex’s Shoe store (when it was located on East Pearl), and lots of window shopping.

This is the first post on the Nashua mills.  I’ve been taking photos of the mills for a number of years and this will be my outlet for those photos.

-Just my thoughts. -Jenn

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