Manchester Things to Do

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DRIVE DOWN COMMERCIAL AVENUE BY THE MERRIMACK RIVER to see the great old industrial buildings, now used for business offices, a university, and the occasional restaurant.

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Good information can be found, especially at the Manchester Historic Association Millyard Museum, (also at Manchester Historical Society and Carpenter Memorial Library) but you have to know enough to know what to look for. Go to the exhibit in Lowell, MA first; the information is gathered into a more coherent whole there, and will give you a good idea of era, architecture, and worker’s culture. The Manchester buildings and information will have some context then. There is considerable historical similarity of the old cities along the Merrimack: Lawrence, Haverhill, Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, and to a lesser extent, Concord, Franklin and Laconia.

Commercial street has renovated the factories and filled them with, cafes, resteraunts, universites, clubs, pubs, bars, lofts, apartments, gyms, businesses, and museums. It's a bit of old world style with new world commerce at Manchester's Commercial street.

I grew up fishing here at the falls. There are Bass at the bottum of the falls, and the salmon try to swim up the falls but cannot. Manchester has since built a fish observatory which allows the fish to bypass the falls and swim upstream to hatch their eggs. The observatory has different levels and goes aroud the falls to the side, which has thick glass windows where you can actually see all kinds of fish.

This historical building is still in Manchester today. I used to go to The Young Mens Christian Association, or better known as The Y, or YMCA. I grew up going here as a kid. I also shool Bill Clintons hand while he was the presidential canidate in the early 90's. He came up to me and said " I'm Bill Clinton tell your parents about me". I was so excited sure enough I went and told my parents, I was about 12 then. Little did I know where hid hands had been, I might not have been so excited to have shook his hand!

The main street which runs through downtown manchester. It is said to be the longest dead end street, be it New Hampshire folk lore or not. Elm street is supposed to be the only Main street in america, that ends in a dead end, again wives tale or not it's a fun tid bit of info. I believe that the tree in the pic is an old elm tree.

The tallest Building in Manchester is also the City Hall. It's not the Empire State Building, but for NH residents it is the closest thing. Not many cities have their city hall as the tallest skyskraper in the city.

Manchester's Art gallerey has paintings of world famous artists such as Picasso, Monet, O'Keeffe, and Wyeth! The museaum has a vast variety of paintings, scultpures and photographs. There are lots of local artists that have there work displayed here with an abundance of New England style art.