Geo.: Small: N,H.: Portsmouth: Wentworth-Gardiner House: Photographs
GUSN-195486
An interior view of the fireplace mantel in one of the parlors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The frieze of the mantel is adorned with a carved flower and fruit design. It appears that decorative tiles are inset into the fireplace face. The wallpaper bears a floral pattern. 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.
parlors
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
wallpapers
fireplaces
mantels
carving (processes)
interior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ephemera
DigitalID 000600
AccessID 831
Other identifier HNEDID-000600
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.01.TMP.103
1915
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Dean, Henry Charles (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ephemera
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Item
Geo.: Small: N,H.: Portsmouth: Wentworth-Gardiner House: Photographs
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