GUSN-195431
An exterior view from the intersection of Mechanic Street and Gardner Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Posrtsmouth, New Hampshire before the restoration of Wallace Nutting. A picket fence surrounds the property. The stairs leading to the front door has railings. The Second Empire-style entry porch is supported by Corinthian columns and is surmounted by a balustrade. The front louver doors are closed. Only the center window of the second floor has a shutter, which is closed. Curving braces support the pediment above the side door. A sign reading "Gardner Street" is attached the quoins on the left side of the house. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the house and lived there until he died in 1833. In 1915, Wallace Nutting purchased the house, restored the building, and added it as one of the five sites in his for-profit enterprise, the Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses.
louver doors
porticoes
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
Second Empire
exterior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000556
AccessID 775
Other identifier HNEDID-000556
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.01.TMP.090
1880s-1910s
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Halliday Historic Photograph Co. (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Gardner Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Item
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