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ca. 1912
GUSN-195436
A view of the front panel door and portico of the Governor John Langdon House at 143 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Four Corinthian columns support the portico and balustrade. John Langdon, a successful merchant who served as a U.S. senator and governor of New Hamsphire, began construction of the house in 1783 and completed the house in 1785. Portsmouth joiners, Daniel Hart and Michael Whidden III, oversaw the building of the residence.
columns (architectural elements)
panel doors
porticoes
houses
Corinthian (architectural style)
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
transoms (opening components)
exterior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000562
AccessID 780
Other identifier HNEDID-000562
Nutting studio number 572
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches
Paper finding aid available in the Library and Archives.
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
PC039.USNH.01.007
Date listed as circa 1912-1914 in Richard Candee, Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 12.
10 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Langdon, John, 1741-1819
Hart, Daniel
Whidden, Michael, III
Pleasant Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
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