Habitat For Humanity

The house on Tolles Street is the first one built by the Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity affiliate. It is a duplex that is home to the first two families we selected.

The property was obtained through a partnership with the French Hill Neighborhood Association (now part of Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Nashua). In 1997, we worked with them to renovate the building across the street to house their offices, a police substation, and a three-bedroom low-income apartment upstairs. The French Hill Neighborhood Association then sold us the lot with three condemned buildings across the street.

The buildings on the lot had been seized by the federal government in the 1980s because of drug dealings and a double homicide that had occurred there. The buildings were demolished and the property was prepared for building the duplex.

Ground breaking for the new duplex was held March 26, 1998. One year later, the two families that had been selected to be homeowners closed on their new homes. They moved in and were living in their new home by the next evening. This provided homes for the families so that all members could finally live together under one roof.

Today two families reside in these attractive units, which face a small, attractive park, and the area features a neighborhood grocery store a few moments walking distance from the duplex.

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