broad street park in 1909
a commercial area centered on washington street claremont s primary commercial district. italian renaissance-styled city hall building, houses historic claremont opera house, built in 1897 , designed architect charles a. rich. city hall faces broad street park, rotary-style town square. square connects washington street, broad street, , main street, branch different portions of city. broad street park contains war monuments world war i, world war ii, korea , vietnam, , freedom garden memorial dedicated victims , families of september 11. included 2 civil war cannon , centrally-located soldier s monument, designed martin milmore , dating 1890. park home historic bandstand, built in victorian style in 1890 , redesigned in 1922 in classical revival style, serves performance space claremont american band, community band dating 1880. parallel broad street lies pleasant street, home downtown business district, city s primary commercial zone until development of washington street district.
a number of mill buildings dot lower village district in city s center, along sugar river, , several attempts have been made @ historic preservation of of them.
to north end of town lies valley regional hospital, out-patient resource of popular dartmouth-hitchcock medical center of lebanon.
moody park
on southern artery out of claremont, route 12, stood highland view, summer home of claremont native william henry harrison moody (1842–1925), made fortunes businessman , shoe manufacturer in boston area, kept residence in hometown until death. large william h. h. moody estate known horses , 5 large barns (the last of burned in 2004 lightning strike), once hosted several hundred imported horses on over 500 acres (2.0 km). victorian farmhouse stands @ top of arch road. in march 1916, 175-acre (71 ha) portion of estate donated moody city of claremont city park, entrance of on maple avenue; facilities include tennis. lone access road leads through coniferous forest top of hill, maintained large field city, large, open-air stone structure suitable picnics. park has several miles of interconnected walking trailways; several of these trails terminate @ boston , maine railroad.
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