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1914
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195385
This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A light fixture hangs from below the keystone of the arched wall. Wainscotting and wallpaper adorn the walls of the hall and staircase. 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.
wainscoting
stairs
entrance halls
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
wallpapers
interior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000520
AccessID 727
Other identifier HNEDID-000520
Nutting studio number 1580
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1920-01-27
PC039.USNH.03.016
Gift
Date listed as 1914 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 40.
10 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dean
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
New Nutting studio number 1580 appears on the verso of the photograph and in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 40.
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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