West End

The West End was built by the city's merchant families in the decades after the Great Fire of 1866, and it still reads like an architecture textbook: Italianate villas, Queen Anne turrets, Federal brick and the occasional Shingle Style surprise.

Day to day it is a residential, walkable neighbourhood. Longfellow Square and Congress Street are a few minutes away for cafes, bakeries and the independent cinema, while the Western Promenade offers a long, level walk with views to the White Mountains.

Houses here rarely come to the open market, and when they do they tend to be larger single-family homes or elegant apartments within converted mansions.