Lancaster town green Northern Whites
— — a town green that knows what winter is.
Not only on a wall.
“The shire town of Coos County, set on a wide bend of the Connecticut River with Vermont on the other bank. The town green is a small rectangle of grass with a white bandstand, ringed by the courthouse, the brick library, and a row of Federal and Greek Revival storefronts. North of here the White Mountains drop into the Great North Woods, the part of New Hampshire most New Hampshirites have never seen. The fair grounds host the Lancaster Fair every Labor Day weekend, the second oldest in the state. — from the studio
Lancaster town green Northern Whites, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Lancaster sits at the northern edge of the White Mountains, on the Connecticut River across from Guildhall, Vermont. It is the shire town of Coos County, chartered in 1763 and settled the following year, making it one of the older European settlements in northern New Hampshire. The town carries about 3,200 residents at an elevation of roughly 863 feet. The town green sits at the centre of the historic district, ringed by the Coos County Courthouse, the 1908 Weeks Memorial Library, and a row of nineteenth-century commercial buildings along Main Street, U.S. Route 3.
The valley turns over in late September, with sugar maples on the green going orange and red before the higher elevations to the south finish. Winters here are long and cold; January averages run in the low teens Fahrenheit, and snow holds on the green into April some years. The Lancaster Fair, second oldest in New Hampshire after the Rochester Fair, runs five days over Labor Day weekend with horse pulls, a midway, and 4-H livestock judging. In high summer the bandstand hosts town concerts on Friday evenings.
Lancaster sits on U.S. Route 3 about thirty miles north of Franconia Notch and an hour from Bretton Woods. The historic district along Main Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Weeks State Historic Site, the former summer estate of Secretary of War John W. Weeks, sits on Mount Prospect just south of town; the 1912 stone tower at the summit gives a long view back over the green and west across the Connecticut into the Vermont Green Mountains. Parking around the green is free.