[1] The Roger Sullivan House is located in a residential area north of downtown Manchester, at the southwest corner of Walnut and Prospect Streets.

It is an exuberant expression of Queen Anne design, with varied gables, porches, chimneys, and bays, and a three-story turret capped with a conical roof.

[2] The house was designed by local architect William M. Butterfield, and built in 1892 for Roger G. Sullivan on land he purchased in 1890 from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.

Sullivan, a native of Bradford, New Hampshire, was manufacturer of one of the most widely distributed brands of ten-cent cigars, employing as many as 800 workers in a factory on West Central Street.

Butterfield was one of the city's most prolific architects of the period, producing designs for all types of buildings and in many different styles.