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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
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.
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.
Jaffrey Center Meeting House (late 18th century), Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire; 2006 photograph. One of the most beautiful meeting houses in New England. A white clapboard colonial meeting house with clock and bell tower having three upper stages - all balustraded - the upper two octagonal.
Jaffrey Center Meeting House (late 18th century), Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire; Fall 2010 photograph. There is a legend that the meeting house was under construction on the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), and that the sound of cannon fire from the battle could be heard at the meeting house site. This is most unlikely, as the battle took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts - approximately sixty miles away "as the crow flies".
Jaffrey Center Meeting House (late 18th century), Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire; Winter view (1975 photograph).
First Congregational Church (1799), Exeter, New Hampshire. Central pavilion with three entrances and arched windows at second story. Three stage tower: the lower bearing four pilasters, arched window and clock; the second an arched octagonal with small balustrade on top; the top stage is an arched cupola with weather vane.
Gilman Garrison House (1709), Exeter, New Hampshire. Garrison houses were New England's log cabins, usually built from hewn logs dovetailed at the corners. They were intended as a defense against Indian - often French and Indian attack.
Old Parsonage (1710 or later), Newington, New Hampshire. A remarkably well preserved sea coast New Hampshire salt box. Clapboard with center chimney, front door entablature with angular pediment. Small addition or ell in rear.
Sandown Meeting House (1774), Sandown, New Hampshire. The simple wood-clapboard exterior houses a galleried interior with box pews and an elaborate "wine-glass" pulpit. The exterior ornamentation is restricted to a modillioned cornice and two handsome angular-pedimented door entablatures.
Sandown Meeting House (1774), Sandown, New Hampshire; Interior. "Wine-glass" pulpit with sounding board (canopy), box pews, gallery and some marbleized (painted to look like marble) columns and pilasters on the pulpit.