Haverhill, New Hampshire $139,900

Most of the houses lining Route 10 and surrounding the Haverhill Center town green are large and we. kempt, with manicured lawns, daing from the early 1800s. There's no doubt why this has been designated a historic district.

The four-bedroom house we visited, three down from the green, fits in with the rest but is more attractive outside than in. We noticed a Rumford-style fireplace in the front parlor and a couple of nice old raised-panel doors, but years of redecorating and mixed use have altered much of the original character here. (We'd start by replacing the large-paned windows with smaller ones, maybe, but would take our tine with the rest.) A half-acre surrounds the house and includes the foundation remnants of what once were attached outbuildings.

Besides its historic district, Haverhill (pop. 3,600) is known as the site of the state's last public hanging, which took place in the 1860s. In 1770 the town's residents offered Eleazar Wheelock 50 acres of land to establish Dartmouth College here; he turned them down, and they haven't forgiven him since.

Call Martha Diebold Real Estate in Lyme, (603) 795-4816.

Wheelock could have lived here.