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best-preserved example* of early 1800 architecture. Private.Boardman House (1805)—152 Middle street. Built by Langley Boardraan. Has beautiful lacadc. often copied by arch l toe la. Private.Larkin House (1815) — 180 Middle street. Three-story brick house, similar to many frame houses built r.eor close of war of J812. Samuel Larkin, auctioneer, bullc It for residence. Private.Rundlct May House (180S—364 Middle street. Built by James Rundlet la 1806. Thrce-3torlcd white house with picket ar.d shlp-board fence, on a terrace. Chains running down from portico to sidewalk. Owned by grandson of builder. Contains ftr.o Fei'“xl *ur-rilure.John Langdon House (1234)—Pleasant rud Court streets. Built m 1184 by John Langdon. outstanding Revolutionary patriot. Still in Langdon family. Jar.ip.stnwn Exposition (1637) had replica of this homo as New Hampshire building. John Langdon was patriot who administered oath or office to both Washington ano Adams us president rf the United States Senate.Wendell House (1739 — Corner of Pleasant and Edward sirsoet. Purchased by Jacob Wendell, prominent Portsmouth merchant In :61S. Since, home of bis son. grandson and now groat grandson. William Greonough Wendell:—lived In continually by various members of family since 1815. Original contents never divided. Much of furnituro and china antedates house. Private.Mark H. Wentworth Home (1767)—346 Pleasant street. Built *for Gov. John Wentworth, last of the royal governors of Now Hampshire, who left at the outbreak of tho revolution. Old colonial design still maintained, although building has been enlarged aa modem home for invalids.Tobias Lear House (1735)—51 Hunting street, r.oor Morey. Birthplace of Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington anti consul-general to the Bar-bary states. Lear, son of Capt. Tobias Lear (in charge of building tho Rar.ger) born here in 1762. Open to the public.Wentworth Gardner House (176C)— 140 Mechanic street, corner Gardner— erected by Madam Hunklng Wentworth. Noted for interior carvings ar.d flna doorway, over which is a largelormea ncic.Thomas Bailey Aldrich Mouse (1769) —383 Court street. Known io readers of “The Story of a Bad Boy” as Nutter House. Boyhood homo of Thomas Bol-Jcy Aldrich. Furnished exactly as described la boos* and poems of A’.drle.A. Open daily during summer.Warner House (1713) - 150 Daniels street, corner of Cnapel. Noted example of Georgian architecture, constructed of bnck brought from Holland. Walls 13 Inches thick. Oldest brick house la Portsmouth. Open during summer.St. John's Church (1807-1303) Chapel street. Contains copy of the “Vinegar Bible.” one of the four copies In ihl3 country. Bell rocasc by Paul Revere, was captured in Loulsh'jrg. Organ in balcony said to be one oldest In America. built In England In 1710.Moffatt-Ladd House (1753)—At 154 Market street, homo of New Hampshire society or Colonial Dames. ficautifu. house with an old garden, still kept lr. its Colonial design. Once the home of General William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, oper. to public during summer.Jackson House {18641—'75 Northwest street. Oldest wooden fracio house in New Hampshire and oldest house In Portsmouth. Architectural design distinctive. Partly furnished. Open to public.Governor Benning Wentworth Mansion (1690—End of Little Harbor road, built by grandfather of last royal governor cf New Hampshire. Governor Wentworth added council chamber in 1750 and planted purple lilacs on terrace—the first lilacs to be brought to America. House was the sc sue of Longfellow’s poem. “Lady Wentworth.” •Phoney FlatSedan. Kas., Aug. 15 CAP}—A« traveling salesman was listening to a program on his car'* radio when the announcer said: “Sh-hhhhhh-hhhh— so abrupty and so loudly the salesman jumped out and ran around looking at all his tires before it dawned upon him it was just part of the broadcast.
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Fri, Aug 15, 1941
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