[1] The Woodsville Opera Building occupies a prominent location in the Woodsville business district, at the southwest corner of Court and Central streets (New Hampshire Route 135 and U.S. Route 302, respectively).

Its most distinctive feature, a four-story clock tower set at an angle to the street corner, makes it a local landmark.

[2] The block was built in 1890 by E. B. Mann and the Woodsville Opera Building Society.

The building includes a performing venue that seats 600, and was for many years a center of civic life in the community, hosting high school graduations, proms, and other events.

For many years it housed the Mann pharmacy, which claimed to be one of the longest-running drugstores in the nation.