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Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; On Winter Afternoon.
Jaffrey Center Meeting House (1775); Fall view.
Jaffrey Center Meeting House (1775), Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire; Winter view (1975 photograph).
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 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; 2015 view after completion of exterior restoration.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; View from northeast in summer.
Wentworth-Gardner House (1760), Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Detail of front door with entablature and broken scroll pediment.
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.