The Carpenter and Bean Block is a historic apartment house at 1382-1414 Elm Street in Manchester, New Hampshire.

[1] The Carpenter and Bean Block is located at the northern end of downtown Manchester, at the northwest corner of Elm and Dow Streets.

[2] The building was built as an investment property by Josiah Carpenter and Nehemiah Bean, prominent local businessmen and real estate developers.

The land originally belonged to the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, and was sold to Carpenter and Bean with the constraint that construction be of brick.

It was designed by John T. Fanning, a prominent local architect with a number of significant regional industrial and residential commissions.