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Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion (various stages - 1650-1750), Little Harbar, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; View from west.
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion (various stages - 1650-1750), Little Harbar, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; View from southwest.
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion (various stages- 1650-1750), Little Harbor, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; View from south. The first independent governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, set up shop here and had his council come to him.
Warner House (1716-18), Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Remarkably sophisticated for its early Georgian date, the house is strikingly handsome in its proportions. It displays quite a few ornaments typical of its style, including a cupola and balustrade, an overly-dormered roof, a belt course and an imposing segmental pediment over the entrance.
Macpheadris-Warner House (1716-18), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Winter.
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Macpheadris-Warner House (1716-18), Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2005 photograph).
Macpheadris-Warner House (1716-18), Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2008 photograph).
Macpheadris-Warner House (1716-18), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Rear or north side in summer; view across garden.
Warner House; Landing of main stair:Two of four Mohawk "Kings" taken to England in 1710 and shown to Queen Anne to encourage support for colonies against French and Indians in "Queen Anne's War". These replicas painted c 1720. Original paintings by John Verelst are in Canadian National Archives, Ottawa.
Macpheadris-Warner House; Mohawk "Kings" including context.
Macpheadris Warner House (1716-18) Portsmouth, New Hampshire; East wall of main stair. Boy wearing wig on a pony with black pouch (sabretache) bearing a crown and the letter "P", thought by the photographer-historian to be an image of Crown Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the only child of Queen Anne to survive infancy, who was second in line to the throne when he died immediately after his eleventh birthday - before his mother became Queen.
Warner House; West wall of main stair: Painting shows Abraham about to slay Isaac but for the timely intervention of the Angel!
Warner House; West wall of main stair; Lower part.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The facade is a charming accumulation of Georgian decorative elements: the hipped roof pierced by three dormers, the two-story quoins, angular pediments over the ground floor windows and a hefty broken-scroll pediment atop the door entablature.This facade bears wood panels somewhat rusticated to look like stone, but the sides are simple wood clapboard.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; View from Pierce Island.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; On Winter Afternoon.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760) Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Interior - Upstairs Hall. The panelled hall is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters under a modillioned cornice. The balustrade leads down to an arched window at the rear of the house flanked by pilasters, flowered fretwork and a panelled reveal.
Tobias Lear House (c 1740), Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A modest, yet plump hip-roofed Georgian showing few decorative elements. It was built by the grandfather of Tobias Lear, a secretary to George Washington.
John Paul Jones (Capt.Gregory Purcell) House (1758), Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2008 photograph). US naval hero John Paul Jones lived here for a short time.The house therefore bears his name.
John Paul Jones (Capt.Gregory Purcell) House (1758), Portsmouth, New Hampshire (2005 photograph). The house is the headquarters of the Portsmouth Historical Society which has owned the building since 1920.