The present town center grew around the crossroads of Church, Candia, Raymond, and North roads.

A Baptist congregation built a church here in 1805, and by the 1820s there was a small cluster of buildings including houses and taverns.

There are three churches, the town hall, fire station, and Soldiers Memorial (which houses the library), while the remaining buildings are residential.

All but two buildings are of wood-frame construction, and covered in either clapboards or modern siding of similar appearance, while the fire station and memorial are brick.

[2] The designers of two buildings in the district are known: Foster & Robinson of Concord were architects of the Deerfield Town House, built in 1856, and Manchester architect Chase R. Whitcher designed the Soldiers Memorial Building, containing the public library, which was built in 1913–14.