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Sawyer Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	4-6 Portland St., Dover, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°11′47″N 70°52′19″W / 43.19639°N 70.87194°W / 43.19639; -70.87194
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1812 (1812)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	80000316
Added to NRHP	May 23, 1980

The Sawyer Building is a historic commercial building at 4-6 Portland Street in Dover, New Hampshire. The three-story brick structure was built in 1825, during Dover's period of economic prosperity following the establishment of its textile mills. It is one of Dover's oldest commercial buildings. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Description and history

The Sawyer Building occupies a prominent triangular lot bounded by Portland Avenue and Main Street in downtown Dover, and is also known locally as the Flatiron Building, after the triangular Flatiron Building in New York City. It is three stories in height, built out of brick set on a granite foundation. Its street-facing facade is curved at the street corner, and extends for a total of seventeen bays, five of which have entrances. The entrances are framed in granite, and windows have granite lintels. It is covered by a low-pitch hipped roof.

The building was erected in 1825, during Dover's early boom period as a cotton textile manufacturing center. Its location, known then as the Landing, was the commercial trading hub for the city's maritime cotton trade, which was one of the most extensive in the country in 1830. It is one of Dover's oldest surviving commercial buildings, and an excellent example of commercial Federal period architecture.

See also

• List of flatiron buildings
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Sawyer Building". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-08-28.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
National Historic Landmark	Gen. John Sullivan House
Historic districts	Cocheco Mills Durham Historic District Rochester Commercial and Industrial District Salmon Falls Mill Historic District Sawyer Woolen Mills
Historic properties	Back River Farm Canaan Chapel County Farm Bridge Farmington Town Pound First Congregational Church First Parish Church First Parish Church Site-Dover Point Forest Glade Cemetery Free Will Baptist Church Garrison Hill Park and Tower Green Street School Jenness Farm Lehoullier Building Michael Reade House Milton Town House New Durham Meetinghouse and Pound New Durham Town Hall Plumer-Jones Farm Plummer Homestead Public Market Queensbury Mill Religious Society of Friends Meetinghouse Richard Hayes House Rollinsford Grade School Rollinsford Town Hall Samuel Wyatt House Sawyer Building Smith Chapel Somersworth High School St. Thomas Episcopal Church Strafford County Farm Strafford Union Academy Thompson Hall US Post Office-Dover Main US Post Office-Somersworth Main William Hale House Wiswall Falls Mills Site Woodbury Mill Woodman Institute
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Strafford County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

• Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
• Federal architecture in New Hampshire
• Buildings and structures completed in 1812
• Buildings and structures in Dover, New Hampshire
• National Register of Historic Places in Strafford County, New Hampshire
• 1812 establishments in New Hampshire