Samuel Wyatt House

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7 Church Street

Samuel Wyatt had this house built in 1835. Mr. Wyatt owned the Dover Hotel, also known as Wyatt’s Inn, on Tuttle Square and the New Hampshire Hotel, as well as hotels in Medford and Boston, Massachusetts. These Dover hotels were visited over the years by many famous people including President Monroe (1817), General Lafayette (1825), and former President John Q. Adams (1833). Mrs. Wyattt was a well known educator and author and is said to have taught more children than any other lady in New Hampshire. Her students included renowned attorneys and members of Congress. In 1840 the house was sold to Silas Moody, a furrier and businessman, and then in 1896 to Washington Anderton, a fabric colorist brought from England for the Cocheco Mfg. C