Developer Begins Demolishing Concord Church

CONCORD, NH — Demolition began yesterday at one of the city’s former Catholic churches, St. Peter’s Church on North State Street. An excavator started tearing down the parish hall – a former community room for events and voting location. Jonathan Chorlian– a Concord developer who has converted a number of properties into multi-unit projects, including Sacred Heart Church on Pleasant Street – plans to redevelop the site into a pocket neighborhood of standalone homes and upgrades to other buildings on the property.

Chorlian submitted plans to the city planning department in 2018.

The property, according to the city’s assessing database, is valued at more than $3.8 million and is still own by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester. The church itself was built in 1956 but a mansion and carriage house on the property were constructed in the late-1890s.

According to published reports in the Concord Monitor, there were attempts to save the church recently. It was desecrated last year and items, including windows, were removed from the church. Chorlian has a purchase and sale agreement with the diocese for the property.