As of the end of 2021, there are 23 Abbot-Downing Coaches located in New Hampshire, including coaches returned from Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts in the last few years. Some are readily accessable, while others are not. Several of the newly returned coaches are now owned by the Abbot-Downing Historical Society, in anticipation of the creation of an Abbot-Downing museum in Concord.
While you're looking over these pictures, listen to "The Ballad of the Concord Coach", composed and sung by New Hampshire's own Shaw Brothers.
Coach XIV - L. Downing & Sons, ca. 1850 - Abbot-Downing Historical Society
Coach VII - L. Downing & Sons, ca, 1850 - Abbot-Downing Historical Society
Coach XXXVI - L. Downing & Sons - from Waitsfield VT - Abbot-Downing Historical Society
Coach 113 - Abbot Downing & Co. - 1866 - recently transfered from Concord Monitor to Abbot-Downing Historical Society
Coach 23 - Abbot-Downing Co. - Prescott Collection
Coach 491 - Abbot-Downing Co. - 1880 - Prescott Collection
Coach 80 - Abbot-Downing Co. - Concord Group Insurance
Coach 65 - JS & EA Abbot - 1852 - New Hampshire Historical Society This coach was once on prominent display at the Concord railroad station and was then on display at the New Hampshire Historical Society's Eagle Square facility. It was made inaccessable when the Eagle Square facility became just a storage location. However, in 2024, this coach was moved to the rotunda of the New Hampshire Historical Society's main building on Park Street, Concord.
Coach 36 & XXXVI - Joint Effort - ca. 1850 - Andover Historical Society, formerly owned by the Andover Lions Club
Coach 425- Abbot-Downing Co. - New London Historical Society
no number - Francestown
no number - Amherst Historical Society
Coach XXII - L. Downing & Sons, 1846 - Moultonborough Country Store. (This 6-passenger coach is unique in that it has no brakes. Consequentially, the harness shown, without britching, would never have been used with this coach.)
Coach XVI - L. Downing & Sons, ca. 1850 - Town of Sandwich
Coach 431 - Abbot-Downing Co. - 1874 - State of New Hampshire - The Flume, Franconia Notch
no number - The Fabian House Coach - Mt. Washington Auto Road Museum
Coach XLI - L. Downing & Sons - Marshall Collection
Coach 428 - Marshall Collection
Coach Break 455 - Abbot-Downing Co. - Marshall Collection (This coach was modified by removal of the upper half of the body and addition of three seats at the same level as the driver)
unk serial Number - from Willowbrook Museum - Marshall Collection
Coach #273 - (Turners Tavern) - private owner