tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63878815836136425722024-03-14T13:39:32.320-04:00Walk PortsmouthRon Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.comBlogger200125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-3113548643608194742015-06-05T15:28:00.000-04:002015-06-05T15:28:58.521-04:00Charles E. Trafton House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Charles E. Trafton House sits at 169 Lafayette Road, on the northeast corner of South and Middle Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This large home and stable were constructed for Portsmouth resident Charles E. Trafton in 1897, at a cost of $27,000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trafton, the District Agent for Travelers Insurance Company, placed the advertisement below in the <i>Portsmouth Directory</i> of 1905. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His insurance office was located in the Congress Block on Congress Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">William A. Ashe, t</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he architect who designed the Charles E. Trafton House, moved to Portsmouth from Boston in 1868. He worked as a draftsman at the Naval Shipyard for 25 years, and afterwards, established his own architectural business around 1893. During and after his employment at the naval shipyard, Ashe designed many homes and buildings on Portsmouth’s West Side. His most important works were the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-music-hall.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Music Hall</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (1877) on Chestnut Street, the old </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/09/rockingham-county-jail.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Rockingham County Jail </a><span style="font-family: inherit;">(1891) on Penhallow Street, and the remodel of the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/07/academy-building.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Academy Building’s</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> interior for the former Portsmouth Public Library (1896) on Middle Street.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Charles E. Tafton home still stands at the busy intersection of South Street and Lafayette Road. Except for the paved road and the clutter of view-obscuring traffic lights and signs, the corner remains very similar to the way it appeared in 1902, in the photograph below from C. S. Gurney’s book, <i>Portsmouth . . . Historic & Picturesque</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The so-called ‘1705 House’, sometimes referred to as the John Newmarch House, once stood at 33-35 Deer Street, the next building west of the old <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/06/deer-tavern.html">Deer Tavern</a>.</span><br />
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The two-story dwelling house became known as the ‘1705 House’ because of a circular plaque on the east chimney painted with the date ‘1705’, the year it was constructed by a Portsmouth merchant named John Newmarch. </span><br />
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The son of Reverend John Newmarch of Kittery and brother-in-law of Sir William Pepperell, John Newmarch lived in Portsmouth where the Congress Block is located today. In addition to the 1705 House, he built the Deer Tavern, which once stood next door. Both were built early in the British Colonial Period, 70 years before the start of the American Revolutionary War.</span><br />
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Deer Tavern was gone by 1859, when Charles Brewster wrote, <i>Rambles About Portsmouth</i>, but the 1705 House still remained. In 1876, Sarah Haven Foster wrote in her <i>Portsmouth Guide Book</i> that, other than the 1705 plaque, “modern improvements have deprived it of its other marks of age.” Over the years, many additions were constructed in the rear. In 1880, when the property was sold by Daniel Sullivan to Benjamin F. Chandler, the deed mentions a store as well as the house and “other buildings”. Chandler subsequently sold the property to <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/02/frank-jones-maplewood-farm.html">Frank Jones</a> in 1884, whose estate sold it after his death.</span><br />
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During the early 1900s, the North End of Portsmouth became home to many immigrant families, primarily from Italy. The community became a close-knit clan, sharing a common ethnicity, proximity, and eventually, family, as their sons and daughters intermarried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Portsmouth in those days was much different than it is today. Supplies and staples were available within walking distance of the North End. The city’s downtown was full of family-owned meat and fish markets, shops selling everything from sundries and dry goods to appliances and hardware, apothecaries, music stores, and entertainment venues. Everything the people of the North End needed to live and flourish could be had within a mile of Market Square. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br />For more than sixty years, the streets bustled with activity as the immigrant neighborhoods thrived. This vintage photograph on Flickr suggests the close bonds shared by the Italian families who lived there:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Portsmouth decided to redevelop the North End neighborhoods on a grand scale. Rather than repairing and restoring the aging but historic buildings, an urban renewal project unceremoniously evicted the families who lived there, and razed or relocated more than 200 homes and businesses across ten city blocks. The old Italian community was completely erased from the landscape, and the North End – the way it used to be – is still mourned by many city residents to this day.</span><br />
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The 1705 House, which had survived for more than 265 years and typified the Italian North End neighborhoods, was dismantled during the urban renewal project, and its construction materials were used to build a dwelling house somewhere in mid-coast Maine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Below, my 2011 photo shows the approximate location where the 1705 House stood on Deer Street. The black-and-white photographs, above and below, are courtesy of the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nh0157/" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>. They were taken in 1935 as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) by the National Park Service. The people shown were Italian residents of the North End.</span><br />
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The Portsmouth Public Library is 'virtually' restoring these lost neighborhoods by creating a digital archive of photographs and information from 1967, called the <a href="http://www.portsmouthexhibits.org/collections/show/1" target="_blank">North End House History Project</a>. Also, to see hundreds of vintage photographs of the North End and the Italian families who lived there, go to the <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=keyword;keyword=%22north%20end%20(portsmouth%20nh)%22;dtype=d;subset=325" target="_blank">Portsmouth Athenaeum's Website</a>.</span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-47746286211678105992014-12-15T15:40:00.000-05:002014-12-15T15:40:43.867-05:00Folsom-Salter House<span style="font-size: large;">The Folsom-Salter House is located at 95 Court Street, on the north side opposite the intersection of Court and Rogers Street. It originally stood on the <i>south</i> side of Court Street, across from the intersection with Chestnut Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Folsom-Salter House was built in 1808, and its greatest claim to fame is that the 5th President of the United States, James Monroe, stayed here during his visit to Portsmouth, July 12-15, 1817</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More than a thousand Portsmouth students lined Middle Street, from the <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/10/rundlet-may-house.html">Rundlett-May House</a> to the Samuel <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/11/samuel-larkin-house.html">Larkin House</a>, to greet President Monroe upon his arrival. <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/06/jeremiah-mason-house.html">Jeremiah Mason</a>, the famous lawyer, welcomed him to Portsmouth with a speech. On the first full day of his visit, a Sunday, he attended church services at <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/st-johns-church.html">St. John’s Church</a> and the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/05/north-church.html">North Church</a>. He also visited with <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/03/governor-john-langdon-house.html">Governor John Langdon</a> at his home on Pleasant Street.</span><br />
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The house was once owned by one of Portsmouth's many residents over the years named Captain John Salter. This particular John Salter was the son of Henry Salter, the husband of Anne Mary Kennard Salter, and the father of four children, one of whom died in infancy. He lived from 1816-1874.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The house later served as the Portsmouth Athletic Club in the early 1900s, as the law offices of Thomas E. Flynn, and as a restaurant from 1947-1956. During the 1960s, it was moved to its present location and replaced at 140 Court Street by Feaster Apartments, a housing facility for the elderly and disabled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This historic but mostly forgotten mansion is currently the home of <a href="http://www.comdynam.com/" target="_blank">Commonwealth Dynamics, Inc.</a>, "a</span><span style="font-size: large;"> leader in the design, construction, and maintenance of tall structures for the power industry including steel stacks, concrete chimneys, combustion turbine exhaust systems, silos, cooling towers, and other associated structures."</span></div>
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-1510564572741932672014-11-06T17:07:00.000-05:002014-11-06T17:07:44.501-05:00Franklin Block<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The Franklin Block, also known as the Franklin Building and the Ben Franklin Block Buildings, is addressed as 75 Congress Street. The imposing building occupies the block bordered by Congress Street to the north, Fleet Street to the east, and the Vaughan Mall to the west.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the early 1800s, Langley Boardman built two wooden dwelling houses on this block that were soon converted into a hotel and tavern called the Stage House. In 1819, the building on the corner of Congress and Fleet Streets was replaced by a brick building. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The Portsmouth Hotel and Stage House became the Franklin House, and the new structure contained an assembly hall, Franklin Hall, on the first floor with a ‘spring floor’ for dancing, and another hall on the second floor where the Masons gathered.</span></div>
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Hall on May 21, 1823, to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the
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settlement. The attendees included <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/12/daniel-webster-house.html">Daniel Webster</a>, <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/06/jeremiah-mason-house.html">Jeremiah Mason</a>, </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/02/nathan-parker-house.html">Reverend Nathan Parker</a>, <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/01/edward-cutts-house.html">Edward Cutts</a>, <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/08/langley-boardman-house.html">Langley Boardman</a>, and <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/10/y-m-c-building.html">W. H. Y. Hackett</a>, as well as <span style="font-family: inherit;">many prominent </span><st1:city style="font-family: inherit;" w:st="on">Portsmouth</st1:city><span style="font-family: inherit;"> families, including the Wendells, Sheafes, and Wentworths. </span></span></div>
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September 21, 1824, when the Marquis de Lafayette and thirty veterans who
served under him during the American Revolutionary War received a grand reception
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-14308056090722438622014-10-16T15:42:00.000-04:002014-10-16T15:47:01.012-04:00Rundlet-May House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Rundlet-May House, sometimes spelled ‘Rundlett-May House’, is located at 364 Middle Street, on the north side between Summer and Cabot Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">James Rundlet built his new home in 1807, to house his wife, Jane Hill Rundlet, and their seven children. While living here, the fruitful family welcomed six more offspring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Originally from Exeter, Rundlet came to Portsmouth in 1794 to make his fortune, and soon succeeded as a textile merchant with a store on Market Street. The War of 1812 years were extremely profitable for him and included a commission from the United States government to supply woolen cloth for soldiers’ uniforms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Towards the end of the war, he invested in a woolen mill in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and another mill, in 1823, on the Salmon Falls River in Rollinsford. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Later in life, he used his accumulated profits to invest in real estate and rental properties around Portsmouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">James Rundlet was a forward-thinking man who incorporated leading-edge technology in his home. He equipped his kitchen with a revolutionary Rumford range and roaster, precursor of the modern kitchen range, that was invented by Count Rumford during the 1</span>790s<span style="font-family: inherit;">. By the 1830s, he'd installed an early, coal-fired, forced hot-air heating system, and his house was one of the few private residences supplied with water by the Portsmouth aqueduct system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Rundlet family’s extensive holdings, which surrounded their elaborate house, included </span>pastureland<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and property that extended south to Rundlet Mountain, where the <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/06/webster-house.html" target="">J. Verne Wood Funeral Home</a> stands today. From 1815 until his death in 1852, James Rundlet was the tenth highest taxpayer in Portsmouth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Upon his death, two of his unwed children inherited the Rundlet Homestead, Caroline and Edward. Another daughter, Louisa Catherine Rundlet May, joined them in the family home with her two children, twins James and Jane, after the untimely death of Louisa’s husband, George May, in 1858.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The house next passed to Louisa’s son, James Rundlet May following the deaths of his Harvard-educated uncle, Doctor Edward Rundlet, in 1874, and his Aunt Caroline in 1880. James, who also became a doctor and practiced medicine in Portsmouth, and his wife, Mary Ann Morrison May, had one child, a son named Ralph May. Ralph became the fourth generation and last family member to own the home. Upon his death in the early 1970s, Ralph deeded the Rundlet-May House to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now known as <a href="http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/rundlet-may-house/rundlet-may-house" target="_blank">Historic New England</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, C. S. Gurney did not include a photograph of the Rundlet-May House when he published, <i>Portsmouth . . . Historic and Picturesque</i>, in 1902. For a comparison shot, I found this 1940 picture on the Portsmouth Athenaeum Website: <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=549FA317-1107-48DE-A9F9-679756892193;type=102" target="_blank">Façade of Rundlet May House</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Visiting this interesting showpiece of Portsmouth history, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, can prove difficult. For some reason, Historic New England only opens the Rundlet-May House to the public for a dozen or fewer days each year, recently on the first and third Saturdays from June 1 through October 15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When Tilly Haggens immigrated from Ireland to Maine around 1740, she settled in Berwick and purchased a large tract of land. In 1774, her son, John, built the Georgian house that would become known as the Sarah Orne Jewett House on his family's property. John Haggens, a successful merchant and veteran of the French & Indian War, lived here until his death around 1820.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Haggens' estate rented the house to the family of Captain Theodore F. Jewett, a merchant mariner, during the 1820s. The Jewetts eventually purchased the home in 1839. Nearly a decade later, Captain Jewett’s son, Doctor Theodore H. Jewett, moved into the house with his parents. Joining him were his wife, Caroline, and their young daughter, Mary. In 1849, while still living in the house with her in-laws, Caroline delivered a second daughter, Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett, who was named after her grandfather and father. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, Theodora preferred the less masculine-sounding name of Sarah. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Doctor Jewett’s family lived in his parents’ home until 1854, when a Greek Revival house was built for them </span><span style="font-size: large;">next door</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Caroline Jewett gave birth to a third daughter, also Caroline, while they were living in the building that now serves as the Sarah Orne Jewett House Visitors Center. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is also where Sarah Orne Jewett began her writing career, publishing her first story in 1868. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sarah and Mary, neither of whom ever married, continued living with their widowed mother in the smaller, Greek Revival house for 33 years.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjliJ-vJ-tcQ6m-qD5MJyX0B3NAldicqS6LzpZ19_McfYpcL7AVYbnE6LJMiDFiiEnsVWObcS7WA8vd3E_j_rQMVins8SvPz3y6Te1pnYmur62d1uij7v7ltUiqvNDu4srTdYD9Z2QRTl5/s1600/south+berwick-maine-sarah+orne+jewett+house-door-2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1860, the future Sarah Orne Jewett House passed into the ownership of Sarah’s Uncle William. Upon his death in 1887, Mary and Sarah inherited their grandparents' home, while Caroline and her husband took ownership of the Greek Revival house next door. Sarah spent a long and prolific life in the home that bears her name, writing novels, short stories, and poems about country life in the southern seacoast of Maine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">She suffered a stroke and died in the Sarah Orne Jewett House in 1909. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary continued living here until her death in 1930, passing the house on to her nephew, Caroline’s son, Theodore Jewett Eastman. Historic New England received the home as a gift when Eastman died only one year later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Portsmouth Athenaeum's Website has a picture of the ivy-covered Rockingham County Jail circa 1912: <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=2A3D55DA-3CC6-4EAE-B0EE-629120494240;type=102" target="_blank">Postcard</a>. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Compare their vintage photograph with my shot taken 102 years later:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The two are very similar. The most notable differences are that the climbing vines are gone, the chimneys have been removed, and a modern extension has been added to the rear. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Portsmouth razed the derelict courthouse in 1967, but the jailhouse remained and is now used as an office building. On pleasant days on the Seacoast, I wonder if employees working there feel like <i>THEY</i> are in jail?</span></span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-3738726400629086282014-08-20T14:40:00.000-04:002014-08-20T14:40:13.194-04:00Hamilton House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Hamilton House, also known as the Jonathan Hamilton House, overlooks the Salmon Falls River at 40 Vaughan Lane in South Berwick, Maine, about twelve miles north of Portsmouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Jonathon Hamilton was a successful shipping merchant who made his fortune running privateers during the American Revolution. With his new found wealth, he constructed the Hamilton House during the mid-1780s, and ran a shipyard and shop nearby. His prosperous business, which he centered in Portsmouth, included shipbuilding and timbering. He invested in local mills and owned sugar plantations on Tobago in the West Indies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After Jonathon Hamilton died in 1802, his sons owned the house and continued their father’s businesses, although not with the success that he had known. In 1811, they sold the Hamilton House to their sister, Oliver, and her husband, Joshua Haven, who sold it four years later to a business associate of Jonathon Hamilton, Nathan Folsom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">From 1839-1898, Aipheus Goodwin and his wife, Betsy, owned the Hamilton House and surrounded it with a family-run farm. Afterwards, the last private owners were Emily Tyson, the widow of a B&O Railroad executive, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Elise Tyson. Friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, who lived in downtown Berwick, the Tysons turned the farm into a Colonial-Revival country estate. Emily died in 1922, but Elise and her husband, Henry Vaughan, continued to summer here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1949, they donated the Hamilton House and adjoining property to <a href="http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/hamilton-house/hamilton-house" target="_blank">Historic New England</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-9900295931864542252014-07-31T14:03:00.002-04:002014-07-31T14:03:41.614-04:00Bellamy Eagles<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://portsmouthhistory.org/discover-portsmouth/" target="_blank">Discover Portsmouth</a> at 10 Middle Street, in the former <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/07/academy-building.html">Academy Building</a> that served as Portsmouth Public Library, is holding an exhibit of wood carvings by John Haley Bellamy and other artists inspired by him. Called “Bold and Brash: The Art of John Haley Bellamy”, the exhibit is a rare collection of works by the artist famous for his decorative wall-hangings known as Bellamy Eagles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Haley Bellamy was born in the historic Pepperrell Mansion in Kittery on April 5, 1836. His father, Charles Gerrish Bellamy, was a building contractor who served as a Maine State Congressman from 1842-1843, and a State Senator from 1846-1847. Later, he became the Inspector of Timber at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He and his wife, Frances “Fanny” Keen Bellamy, had nine children, as well as two daughters from Frances' previous marriage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Haley Bellamy, their first child together, learned to carve as an apprentice to furniture-maker Samuel Dockham in Portsmouth, and as an employee of Laban Beecher, a famous and controversial ship's woodcarver, in Boston. By the late 1860s, Bellamy partnered with D.A. Titcomb of Boston and was selling carvings across the country to fraternal organizations like the Freemasons, Knights of Columbus, and the Civil War veterans’ organization, the Grand Army of the Republic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During his lifetime, Bellamy's decorative pieces for ships and homes included figureheads, furniture, wall-hangings, and animal figures. He also </span><span style="font-size: large;">held patents for six styles of intricately-carved clock cases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He moved to Portsmouth during the winter of 1872-1873 and opened a wood-carving shop. Here was where he specialized in carved eagles like the ones exhibited at Discover Portsmouth. He became renowned for his “Bellamy Eagles”, yet never signed his works because he considered himself to be an ordinary, but skilled, woodcarver and not an artist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1880, he was commissioned to carve a figurehead for the USS <i>Lancaster</i>, a Naval sloop-of-war, while she was undergoing repairs at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Bellamy was paid just $2.32 per day for his work. The resulting gilded eagle weighs 3,200 pounds and has an eighteen-foot wingspan. Considered to be Bellamy's finest work, the beautiful <a href="http://www.marinersmuseum.org/image/lobby" target="_blank">Lancaster Eagle</a> is proudly displayed at <a href="http://www.marinersmuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Mariner’s Museum</a> in Newport News, Virginia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Bellamy Eagle, or an eagle inspired by John Haley Bellamy, currently flies above the front door of Northeast Auctions in the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/09/treadwell-jenness-house.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Treadwell Jenness House</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Another once adorned the front </span>facade<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the H.C. Hopkins & Company Dry Goods Store on Market Street, now home to the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/06/portsmouth-brewery.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Portsmouth Brewery</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><br />
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<br />Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-83473198163199338062014-07-24T14:35:00.000-04:002014-07-24T14:35:03.551-04:00Richard Jackson House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Richard Jackson House is located at 76 Northwest Street, north of the North Mill Pond in an area of Portsmouth known as the Christian Shore.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This year (2014) marks the 350th anniversary of the oldest house in Portsmouth, which is also the oldest timber-framed building in New Hampshire and Maine. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard Jackson built the original, center portion of this home on his 25-acre property in 1664. Back in Colonial days, the river was more important for travel than the few roads, and for this reason, the home faces the North Mill Pond rather than Northwest Street.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Richard Jackson, the son of an immigrant cooper, worked as a woodworker, farmer, and mariner. His 25-acre property was adjacent to the farms of his father-in-law and brother-in-law. The Jackson family never became famous or wealthy; they were contented to be common laborers, planting crops, tending their apple trees, caring for farm animals, and raising their families. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the years, the house was usually owned and occupied by more than one Jackson family member at a time. This led to several enlargements to increase the living space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They built the first addition, a lean-to adjacent to the kitchen, in 1715. Called “the Butry” or buttery, this unheated </span><span style="font-size: large;">space was used </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">for food storage. Later, they extended the lean-to across the entire rear of the house. This gave the home its distinctive steep roof that slopes almost down to the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a 1727 census, twelve men over the age of sixteen lived in the small house, along with wives and children. The overcrowded conditions led to the construction of an ell on the east side of the house. Around 1824, a shed-roofed lean-to was also added on the west side.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Richard Jackson House has been regarded as historically significant for many years. A</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">s long ago as 1876, when Sarah Haven Foster published <i>The Portsmouth Guide Book</i>, she referred to the Jackson House as “the most ancient of all our houses.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From 1880, the Jacksons lived next door in a more modern house and rented this old home. Until the early 1930s, their renter was a woman named Isabelle “Belle” Tilley who had been born on a slave plantation and escaped via the Underground Railroad. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Richard Jackson House remained in the possession of the Jackson family for more than 250 years. William Sumner Appleton , the founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now known as <a href="http://www.historicnewengland.org/" target="_blank">Historic New England</a>, acquired the house from the seventh generation of Jacksons in 1924. </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQf6IYwLROusCmNdGmcodTN3Csi0hJ4SWZ6KHKnz2J76vl8IIqRJakzAH0cCF3rpl1oUW1CLg2xh186i2QTlyzrbEsP08_T1-WtEM9vmnHermR80wl3P8kyGXYHmMkLIEdtW34DkGIvSvw/s1600/portsmouth+nh-northwest+street-richard+jackson+house-1900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQf6IYwLROusCmNdGmcodTN3Csi0hJ4SWZ6KHKnz2J76vl8IIqRJakzAH0cCF3rpl1oUW1CLg2xh186i2QTlyzrbEsP08_T1-WtEM9vmnHermR80wl3P8kyGXYHmMkLIEdtW34DkGIvSvw/s1600/portsmouth+nh-northwest+street-richard+jackson+house-1900.jpg" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_CVKfvU489ZPo8Xm75fkEiNmWloPRZkJb4-d2_T3GD8iYHwiptzhrQQPR2oanggZXlbep4_0I-nV888ur-62Fq56P8LXFwLUIAKmxfxevn4rXHu8AAwmPJVjhDBmBTnQuXLRSo6WENgA/s1600/portsmouth+nh-northwest+street-richard+jackson+house-2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_CVKfvU489ZPo8Xm75fkEiNmWloPRZkJb4-d2_T3GD8iYHwiptzhrQQPR2oanggZXlbep4_0I-nV888ur-62Fq56P8LXFwLUIAKmxfxevn4rXHu8AAwmPJVjhDBmBTnQuXLRSo6WENgA/s1600/portsmouth+nh-northwest+street-richard+jackson+house-2014.jpg" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The vintage photographs above both date from 1900, before the building was restored by Historic New England. The top comparison photographs show the front of the building that faces the North Mill Pond. The pictures above show the most-famous view of the house, the rear view. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Not surprisingly, the 350-year-old Richard Jackson House is a National Historic Landmark. </span></div>
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-44937459587504164312014-07-18T16:31:00.000-04:002014-07-18T16:31:32.486-04:00Pest Island<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Pest Island is southwest of the northwestern corner of New Castle, east of downtown Portsmouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Colonial Portsmouth’s merchant fleet traveled to distant ports and encountered many contagions, the worst of which was smallpox. The first recorded cases on the Seacoast occurred in 1692 and were thought to have been contracted from cotton imported from the West Indies. At that time, no one locally knew the proper way of treating patients with smallpox, resulting in the death of most people who contracted the disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1735-1736, an unknown contagion that became known as throat-distemper ravaged the area. Especially virulent in children, the merciless disease killed ninety-nine people over a fourteen-month period, eighty-one of whom were under the age of ten. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By the mid-1700s, patients with smallpox or other contagions were usually </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">quarantined in rented houses in rural areas away from the most populated parts of Portsmouth until they were cured or killed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Nathaniel Adams’ 1825 book, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Annals of Portsmouth</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, in 1749, Portsmouth “purchased a small island in the river, just below the town, on which they built a house, with suitable accommodations for a hospital. A family resides in the house to attend upon the sick that are brought there. It is called the pest-house.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The original site was probably Shapley’s Island rather than Pest Island.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1764, an epidemic of smallpox in Boston threatened to spread to Portsmouth, which had constant contact with its sister city by sea and by land. To prevent this from happening, every person and ship traveling from Boston, as well as their baggage and cargo, were ‘smoked’, a method believed to reduce the chances of spreading the disease to others. A native of Portsmouth, <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/07/dr-hall-jackson-house.html">Dr. Hall Jackson</a>, lived in Boston at that time and gained a reputation for successfully treating smallpox victims through inoculations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1778, the town used Dr. Hall's methods to organize a program for inoculating all smallpox patients. A committee identified three islands that were suitable for a quarantine hospital: Pest, Henzell’s, and Salter’s. A system was put in place whereby a person needed permission to visit the island and was required to pay for their care in advance, including eight dollars for the attending physician. Once inoculated, the patient had to remain on the island for at least twenty-one days and could not leave until a doctor certified a clean bill of health. One out of every ten patients who received treatment was to be a pauper whose care was provided for free. The program inoculated four hundred and twelve patients at a total cost of about sixty-five hundred dollars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1782, about a year before the Revolutionary War ended, Portsmouth granted four local physicians – Ammi R. Cutter, Joshua Bracket, Hall Jackson, and John Jackson – permission to establish a private hospital on Henzell’s Island, provided that there would be no cost to the town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bridges that connect the South End of Portsmouth with New Castle (Route 1B) were constructed in 1822. At that time, the Shapley's Island ‘pest-house’ had to be relocated to Pest Island. According to Sarah Haven Foster's <i>Portsmouth Guide Book</i>, the hospital still remained on Pest Island when she published in 1876.</span><br />
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<br />Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-50759697531948280412014-07-10T12:31:00.000-04:002014-07-10T12:31:41.282-04:00Portsmouth Naval Prison<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Portsmouth Naval Prison, sometimes called ‘The Castle’, occupies the southeastern corner of Seavey Island, at <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-uss-constitution-at-pnsy.html">Portsmouth Naval Shipyard</a> in Kittery, Maine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the Revolutionary War, starting in 1775, Seavey Island was fortified with earthworks and garrisoned by New Hampshire militia to prevent the British Navy from entering Portsmouth harbor. Fort Sullivan, named for General John Sullivan, consisted of several gun batteries facing a similar installation, Fort Washington, on Peirce Island. The opposing cannon of the two forts commanded The Narrows, a constricted stretch of the Piscataqua River between the two islands. Fort Sullivan was again manned during the War of 1812, and it was strengthened for the defense of Portsmouth Navy Yard against Confederate threats during the Civil War. After 1866, Fort Sullivan was dismantled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the brief Spanish-American War, a prison encampment known as Fort Long, named for the Secretary of the Navy, John Long, occupied the area of Seavey Island where the Naval Prison stands today. During July of 1898, the Navy transported more than sixteen hundred Spanish prisoners to their temporary home at Fort Long. Their numbers included about a dozen officers and several surgeons and priests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To accommodate the mass of prisoners, eight large barracks were erected to house them, eight more were built for their Marine guard, plus six cook houses, three mess halls, and sanitary buildings. To secure the inmates, two Gatling guns, precursors of modern machine guns, were positioned near the camp entrances, and Marines were posted every fifty feet around the perimeter to prevent an escape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the summer of 1898, the Spanish prisoners could frequently be seen fishing from the high rocks along the Piscataqua riverbank. Some were paroled and allowed to visit Portsmouth. Their stay on the Seacoast was short-lived, however; the war ended barely a month after they had arrived. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">All of the prisoners, except for thirty who had died from injuries or disease and were buried on the island, were transported to Spain on September 12. The Navy closed Camp Long three years later, in 1901.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Construction of Portsmouth Naval Prison began in 1905, and the first prisoners arrived in 1908. Like Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, it was thought that the fast tidal currents of the Piscataqua River would discourage prisoners from trying to escape, and stop them if they made an attempt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The prison was enlarged in 1912 by the addition of The Castle, an impressive-looking building with crenelated battlements </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">atop the four guard towers. The roof is made of copper and, like the Statue of Liberty, weathering has caused it to turn green. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few years after The Castle was added, the First World War saw an influx of prisoners, until the prison population reached 2,295 inmates in 1918. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Portsmouth Naval Prison continued to be used through the Korean War and into the Vietnam War years. By 1974, however, it was considered obsolete and closed permanently. It remains vacant to this day. The U.S. government continues to look for someone to lease the facility, although re-use will require a massive cleanup of hazardous materials, especially asbestos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When it was built, the Portsmouth Naval Prison was considered to be the largest poured-concrete building in the world. In its day, The Castle was the United States Navy’s maximum security prison, and the inmates unlucky enough to be incarcerated here did hard time. A sailor or marine transferred to Portsmouth dreaded the move as much as a civilian sent to Alcatraz. In fact, this infamous brig earned nicknames like ‘The Rock’ and ‘Alcatraz of the East’. Although the prison housed more than eighty-six thousand prisoners during its sixty-six years in service, not one inmate escaped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best places to view the Portsmouth Naval Prison are from Peirce Island and from Portsmouth Avenue (Route 1B) near the westernmost tip of New Castle. Due to hazardous materials, and Shipyard security, visiting the closed facility is prohibited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Situated a very walkable three-quarters of a mile from Market Square, on the top of what once was known as Rundlet’s Mountain, the Webster House is as large and impressive as the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/02/frank-jones-maplewood-farm.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Frank Jones House</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> on Woodbury Avenue. Benjamin Franklin Webster began the construction of his immaculate home beginning in 1878, and the Webster family moved in around 1881. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin F. Webster</span> was a wealthy building contractor who once had vast real estate holdings. Born <span style="font-family: inherit;">in Epsom, New Hampshire, he received a basic education and moved to Portsmouth in 1841. Webster was seventeen years old when he began his remarkable career as a lowly apprentice carpenter. </span>He married Sarah A. Senter in 1849, and built their first home, a small cottage on Austin Street, two years later. While living there, they had a son, Merit Victor Webster in 1851, and a daughter, Stella in 1854.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Websters moved into <span style="font-family: inherit;">the old Oracle House in 1855. Now located at 38 Marcy Street, at that time the historic building sat in Haymarket Square at 2 Court Street. The small family resided in the Oracle House for twenty-six years, until 1881, when they moved to the newly-completed Webster House. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin Franklin Webster was a leading member of St. John’s Masonic Lodge and the Mechanics Fire Society, as well as a proprietor of the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/06/portsmouth-atheneum.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Portsmouth Athenaeum</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. His contributions to the city include the renovation of three local churches and construction of numerous houses, the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/04/cabot-street-school.html">Cabot Street School</a>, the <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/06/kearsarge-house.html">Kearsarge House</a>, and the old Congress Block after fire destroyed the original.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the time of his death, his family included four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His daughter, Stella, never married, and continued to live in their magnificent home until she died, age 97, in 1951. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A vintage photograph of the <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=B1D0A537-E3D6-4AF7-BA06-972652321956;type=102" target="_blank">Benjamin Franklin Webster House</a>, taken in the late 1800s and posted on the Portsmouth Athenaeum website, shows what the house looked like when the Webster family lived there. It hasn't changed much in the ensuing years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mansion has been lovingly preserved by its current owner, the <a href="http://www.jvwoodfuneralhome.com/" target="_blank">J. Verne Wood Funeral Home</a>. Mr. Wood established a downtown Portsmouth undertaking business in 1854. He named his funeral home 'Buckminster Chapel' because it was located in the old <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/07/buckminster-house.html">Buckminster House</a> on Islington Street. During the 1940s, J. Verne Wood was succeeded as funeral director by his cousin, George Bradford Ward. In the early 1950s, Mr. Ward jumped at the chance to buy the Webster House, and the Buckminster Chapel and J. Verne Wood Funeral Home relocated to this magnificent mansion.</span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-61302654268874349912014-06-19T11:35:00.000-04:002014-06-19T12:02:00.974-04:00Kearsarge House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Kearsarge House, sometimes called the Kearsarge Hotel or Kearsarge House Hotel, is located at 104 Congress Street, on the southwest corner of Congress and Chestnut Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Master builder and ship’s joiner Benjamin Franklin Webster, who also constructed the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/04/cabot-street-school.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Cabot Street School</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and the Webster House on Broad Street, built the Kearsarge House as a two-family home in 1866. Almost as soon as it opened, however, it became a hotel with street-level shops. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Colonel Joshua Winslow Peirce, the original owner, was the son of John Peirce and spent his childhood at the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/06/peirce-mansion.html">Peirce Mansion</a> on Court Street at Haymarket Square. Colonel Peirce was a prominent Portsmouth merchant and expert farmer who served as an officer of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment from 1816 to 1823. He joined the Federal Fire Society in 1818 and served until his death in 1874.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Towards the end of his life, Colonel Peirce moved from his beloved farm on the south shore of Great Bay and resided in a townhouse on Congress Street, close to the hotel he’d renamed 'Kearsarge' in 1879 to honor a</span> famous warship. The USS <i>Kearsarge</i> was a</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Civil War sloop-of-war powered by steam and by sail built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and launched in 1861.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On June 19, 1864, at the Battle of Cherbourg off the coast of France, the <i>Kearsarge</i> sank the Confederate warship CSS <i>Alabama</i>. This victory was one of the most significant naval engagements of the Civil War, and the name ‘Kearsarge’ proudly appears on the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/goodwin-park-and-soldiers-and-sailors.html">Soldiers and Sailors Monument</a> in Portsmouth's Goodwin Park on Islington Street. There have been four U.S. warships named <i>Kearsarge; </i>the first was named for Mount Kearsarge in Wilmot and Warner, New Hampshire. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">he three that followed were all named for the original, legendary, Portsmouth-built USS </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Kearsarge</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On December 24, 1876, a popular lecture and exhibition hall on Chestnut Street known as T</span>he Temple<span style="font-family: inherit;"> was destroyed by a fire that slightly damaged the nearby Kearsarge House. A year later, Colonel Pierce's family opened the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-music-hall.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Music Hall</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> where the Temple once stood.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Kearsarge House itself caught fire on January 1, 1951 or 1956 (reports are conflicting). The two-alarm blaze originated in the hotel’s dining room, the Blue Goose Restaurant. As a precaution, nearly seven hundred people were evacuated from the adjacent Music Hall, which at that time was a movie theater called The Civic. Skilled efforts by firemen limited the damage and saved both historic structures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Another fire, on September 5, 1961, started in a fourth-floor storeroom and destroyed the building’s top floor. A Portsmouth fireman was hospitalized briefly for smoke inhalation due to this smoky blaze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been unable to locate a copyright-free, vintage photograph to include here. I <i>have</i> found two Portsmouth Athenaeum links, however, that prove the beautifully restored Kearsarge House still looks very similar to the way it did in the late <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=98AB9D5F-A8CB-446C-8B4A-193238444231;type=102" target="_blank">1800s</a> and <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=0E06DB4A-5C60-4A45-A637-298214533169;type=102" target="_blank">1908</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, it <span style="font-family: inherit;">is home to </span><a href="http://www.alexandani.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Alex and Ani (+) Energy</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and </span><a href="http://runnersalley.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Runner’s Alley</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I recently returned to the quiet streets of Portsmouth after spending ten days walking the bustling boulevards of London. As you would expect, there are striking differences between here and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">there. Steering wheels are on the right side of the cars instead of the left, and vehicles drive on the left instead of the right. Normally, slower traffic keeps left for faster vehicles to pass on the right. Contrary to the roads, however, when </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">you're riding an escalator, you're expected to stand on the right to allow people to pass you on the left. Odd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">have to watch for cars taking a "<i>left</i> turn on red after stop", and be wary of yellow lights, which usually indicate that a red traffic signal is about to turn green, rather than a green light to </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In London, horses and riders, and an occasional carriage, are common sights. Sadly, you rarely see equestrians in Portsmouth any more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A major difference between the two cities is the age and size of the buildings. The oldest surviving building in Portsmouth is the Jackson House at 76 Northwest Street, built </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">around 1664. The second oldest extant house is the 1680 <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/04/dennett-house.html">Dennett House</a> on Prospect Street. These are relative newcomers compared to the Tower of London's White Tower, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">constructed more than 900 years ago, around 1078. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Construction of Southwark Cathedral, on the south side of the Thames, began in the early 1200s; and on the north side, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Westminster Abbey opened in 1245. King Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace dates from the early 1500s, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Kensington Palace will celebrate its 410th birthday in 2015, and the Banqueting House in Westminster, where King Charles I was beheaded in 1649, was constructed in 1619.</span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-77445497615610543762014-05-01T16:00:00.000-04:002014-05-24T17:28:23.399-04:00New eBook Coming Soon<span style="font-size: large;">I apologize for neglecting <i>WalkPortsmouth</i> this spring. I am currently finishing a new eBook called <i>The Great Portsmouth Christmas Fires</i>. After the book's publication later this month, I will resume posting more regularly in June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first major blaze downtown ignited in 1781. Flames from a burning barn on Chestnut Street, now site of <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-music-hall.html">The Music Hall</a>, spread to other structures, including <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/09/rockingham-house.html">Rockingham House</a>, the stately home of Judge Woodbury Langdon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the early 1800s, three major conflagrations gutted the center of Portsmouth. They are often called the great Portsmouth <i>Christmas</i> fires because they all occurred within a few days of December the Twenty-Fifth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first, also known as 'The Great Parade Fire', ignited on Christmas night of 1802 and destroyed every building on Market Street between Market Square and the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/06/moffatt-ladd-house.html">Moffatt-Ladd House</a>. The second, 'Great Bow Street Fire', torched many of the riverside warehouses on Bow Street and burned the original <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/st-johns-church.html">St. John's Church</a> to the ground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last fire was the most devastating. It was discovered around seven o'clock on the night of December 22, 1813, in a barn on Court Street where the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/03/stone-church.html">Stone Church</a> stands today.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Gusting, westerly winds carried flaming material down State Street, and more and more buildings caught fire. By the time the townspeople managed to douse the flames, ten hours after it started, a long swath of destruction scarred the center of Portsmouth, from the barn to the Piscataqua River. This 'Great Portsmouth Fire' destroyed roughly 272 buildings on fifteen acres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Great Portsmouth Christmas Fires</i>, which includes a short walking tour, will be available for $2.99 at Barnes & Noble, the Apple Store, Smashwords, Kobo, and other online retail sites by the end of May.</span><br />
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<br />Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-53832861811721270432014-04-02T15:49:00.000-04:002014-04-02T15:49:09.601-04:00Dennett House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Dennett House, sometimes called The Beehive, stands at 73 Prospect Street, on the west corner of Prospect and Walker Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One of the oldest extant structures in Portsmouth, the Dennett House was built by John Dennett back in the year 1680. This was the second home built in this part of the city, known as Christian Shore. The first still exists: the Richard Jackson House at 76 Northwest Street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John Dennett’s property extended east to the North Mill Pond. Just south of his house is Dennett Street, named in his honor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Dennett family thrived here for many generations. The most famous Dennett to live here was Ephraim, a founder of the Portsmouth Mill Company, a woolens mill established in 1821. During his ownership, Ephraim Dennett expanded the building to its current size. The house was once known as the ‘Bee Hive’ or ‘Beehive’ because a Widow Dennett kept bees on the property. Other Dennetts who were born here included a shipbuilder named Jeremiah, a farmer named Mark, a joiner named John, a boat builder named George, and two more sons named Richard and Joseph. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The vintage photograph above was published in my favorite resource, C. S. Gurney's <i>Portsmouth . . . Historic and Picturesque</i>, in 1902. Now a multifamily home, the Dennett House looks remarkably well for a 334-year-old building.</span></div>
Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-61632415903061008292014-03-20T13:13:00.000-04:002014-03-20T13:22:59.109-04:00John H. Broughton House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The John H. Broughton House is located at 586 Middle Street, on the northeast corner of Middle and Cass Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This elaborate house reportedly cost John H. Broughton $8,000 when built in 1874. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Broughton, a Portsmouth native, was a wholesale and retail dealer in building supplies, particularly lumber, lime, cement, plaster, and slate. Broughton’s wharf once jutted into the Piscataqua River from the eastern end of Daniel Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">His company, originally called Samuel Adams & Company, started in 1841. John Broughton joined the firm in 1845 and became the sole owner in 1881.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For this post, I am comparing recent snapshots of snow-covered Portsmouth landmarks with photographs from the past. Only the first vintage photo was previously published on <i>WalkPortsmouth</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I'll start with one of my favorites. The historic <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/captain-samuel-chauncy-house.html">Captain Chauncy House</a> at 202 Islington Street, built in 1807, was converted into a gas station back in 1937. The old photograph below, from a 1936 Historic American Building Survey (HABS), was taken shortly before its transformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The next one is the Masonic Lodge at 351 Middle Street. <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/11/wallace-hackett-house.html">Wallace Hackett</a> built the elaborate house in 1892 and was the sole owner before the Masons purchased the home in 1920. I found this old photograph in a book called <i>New Hampshire Homes</i>, published in 1895 by James A. Wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The last building is the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/09/warner-house.html">Warner House</a> located at 150 Daniel Street. A Scotsman named Captain Archibald Macpheadris built the brick mansion around 1717 to reflect his vast wealth, gained as a successful Portsmouth mariner and merchant. This vintage photograph also comes from the 1895 book, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>New Hampshire Homes</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-44295655810259083942014-03-05T14:34:00.000-05:002014-03-05T14:34:43.539-05:00D. J. Carroll Grocery Store<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">D. J. Carroll’s Grocery Store was on the southeast corner of Penhallow and Bow Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the turn of the 20th Century, Portsmouth had a working downtown with many grocers, hardware and dry goods shops, music stores and art supplies, confectioners – anything residents needed to live, love, and thrive. Among them were two opposing grocers on Penhallow Street where it meets Bow Street. John O. Downs Fish and Meat Market, later owned by John Holland, sat on the west side of the road, while D. J. Carroll & Company sold groceries, meats, and provisions on the east side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The old photograph below, looking east down Bow Street, was captured during the 1890s and shows both grocers. John O. Downs' market is on the right foreground, and D. J. Carroll’s store is beyond it in the center-right background. On the left is <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/10/merchants-row.html">Merchants Row</a> and W. E. Paul's plumbing store.</span><br />
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Dennis J. Carroll became the owner of his grocery store around </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the year 1899. He and his son, Charles P. Carroll, were the proprietors through at least 1917. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The grocery store was listed in <i>The Portsmouth Directory of 1905</i> under the categories Canned Goods; Flour and Grain Dealers; Grocers; and Produce Dealers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The vintage photograph below was published in C. S. Gurney’s 1902 book, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Portsmouth . . . Historic and Picturesque</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Today, the block serves as a parking lot for the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building on Daniel Street.</span></span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-66760276744036765782014-02-20T12:44:00.000-05:002014-02-20T12:47:57.198-05:00John Holland Market<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John Holland’s Meat & Fish Market was located at 8 Bow Street, on the southeast corner of Bow and Penhallow Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The building dates from at least 1871, when the C. Sullivan and Company grocery store opened here on October 4 of that year. When Sullivan retired a few years later, the firm passed into the hands of an employee named John Oliver Downs, a native of Portsmouth who lived from 1841 to 1910. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Downs was married to Sarah Philbrick Lear and had two daughters, Hattie and Alice. The Downs family lived on the corner of Daniel and Linden Streets, on the east (right) side of where the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building (the U.S. Post Office) stands today, as shown in this Portsmouth Athenaeum photograph: <a href="http://athenaeum.pastperfect-online.com/34182cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=C4FFC278-F609-46D8-A8A7-557796451533;type=102" target="_blank">John and Sarah Downs’ House</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John Downs formed a partnership with John Holland, and the market became known as John O. Downs and Company. According to <i>Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of New Hampshire</i>, published in 1887, the full-service grocery store offered “the choicest cuts of beef, pork, veal, mutton, lamb, etc., also fish of every description, and a full variety of salted and smoked meats of all kinds, vegetables in season, etc.” The store employed seven workers, and three freight wagons with horse teams delivered groceries to customers in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By 1902, when the vintage photograph below appeared in C. S. Gurney’s book, <i>Portsmouth, Historic and Picturesque</i>, this market was known as the John Holland Meat and Fish Store. John O. Downs had opened a new store located around the corner on Market Street.</span><br />
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John Holland’s Meat and Fish Store was listed in the <i>Portsmouth </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Directory of 1905</i>, under the categories of Canned Goods, Country Produce, Fish (Retail), Produce Dealers, and Steamship Agent. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, the exterior of the shop is easily recognizable but now the home of the </span><a href="http://artglassusa.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">NJM Gallery</a> of Contemporary Art Glass</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-80111056092867775162014-02-06T10:41:00.001-05:002014-02-06T20:48:59.417-05:00Frank Jones' Maplewood Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frank Jones' Maplewood Farm can be found at 1094 Woodbury Avenue, opposite the intersection of Woodbury and Maplewood Avenues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The farm can be traced back to Theodore Atkinson, who came to the Seacoast in 1694, and was appointed Clerk of the Superior Court of the Province of New Hampshire in 1701. Upon his death in 1719, the </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">estate was inherited by his nephew, George Atkinson, who became a member of the NH Senate and Council. When George died in 1788, his wife, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Susannah Sparhawk,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> inherited the property. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">An adjoining farm was owned by Charles E. Myers, who ran a clothing store downtown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frank Jones, one of the most remarkable men to ever live in Portsmouth, purchased the Sparhawk and Myers farms in 1867. He named the property 'Maplewood Farm' and soon remodeled the centerpiece of the farm, the large farmhouse </span><span style="font-size: large;">built by Myers around 1860. It </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">still exists today.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the years, Jones enlarged and remodeled Maplewood Farm until it encompassed a thousand acres, adding a large stable and race track, barns, a Victorian flower garden, fountains, bridges, statuary, green houses, a vineyard, fish ponds, summer homes, a tennis court, and croquet lawns. </span>He opened the grounds to the public, who referred to the property as 'The Public Garden of Portsmouth.' <span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite the lavishness of the property, Frank Jones rarely stayed here, except during the month of August. The rest of the time he resided at the </span>Rockingham<span style="font-family: inherit;"> on State Street.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frank Jones was born in 1832 and learned hard work and independent thinking from his father, Thomas Jones, a farmer from Barrington, NH. When he was seventeen years old, Frank moved to Portsmouth and worked as a tin peddler for his oldest brother, who owned a hardware store on Market Street. Within four years, he made enough money to purchase a part-ownership of the store, and soon bought out his brother and became the sole owner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He was the President of </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the Bay State Brewery in South Boston, the Boston & Maine Railroad, the Dover and Portsmouth Railroad, the Portsmouth Shoe Company, the Granite State Fire Insurance Company, the Portsmouth Fire Association, the Portsmouth Machine Company, the Morley Button Manufacturing Company, and the Morley Button Sewing Machine Company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He was a director of many companies, including the Eastern Railroad, the Wolfboro Railroad, the New Hampshire National Bank, the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, the National State Capital Bank, and the Portsmouth Trust and Guarantee Company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Frank Jones was Mayor of Portsmouth in 1868 and 1869. An extremely wealthy man, he returned his salary to the city as a trust for the purchase of books for the high school library and the establishment of a public library. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1875-1879, and nearly won the election for Governor in 1880.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Among his possessions were the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/09/rockingham-house.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Rockingham</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, which he purchased in 1870, Wentworth-by-the-Sea in 1879, and the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-music-hall.html">Music Hall</a> in 1899. Always thinking big, he enlarged and remodeled all of them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to <i>History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, New Hampshire</i>, a book published in 1882, “No man has contributed more to advance the material prosperity and the general welfare of the city of Portsmouth than Hon. Frank Jones.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After his death in 1902 – he is buried in <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/07/south-cemetery.html">South Cemetery</a> – his widow donated about thirty-five acres, including the large farmhouse, to her psychotherapist, Dr. Boris Sidis. From 1909 until Dr. Sidis’ death in 1923, it served as a </span>psycho-therapeutic<span style="font-family: inherit;"> sanitarium known as the Sidis Institute.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During the 1930s, the expansive property was divided into various house lots and gardens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The vintage photograph above is from </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Sidis Psychotherapeutic Institute</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, published in 1909. More than a century later, the mansion has barely changed and now serves as a multifamily home. Although the property was subdivided years ago, remnants of Maplewood Farms remain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, a gazebo (right) that once adorned the front lawn still exists, in the same location, although it now sits in the backyard next door.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span>Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-82416649590159662952014-01-23T09:19:00.000-05:002014-01-23T09:19:58.956-05:00Eldredge Brewing Company<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The former Eldredge Brewing Company is located at One Cate Street, near the northwest corner of Cate and Bartlett Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Back in 1659, the local selectmen gave John Cutt, the grandfather of <a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2014/01/edward-cutts-house.html">Edward Cutts</a>, permission to build a sawmill and corn mill at this location, on the banks of the creek that flows into the North Mill Pond. In January 1680, John Cutt became President of the Province of New Hampshire by royal appointment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Later, the Portsmouth Hosiery Company, also known as the Portsmouth Stocking Factory, stood here from 1830 to 1853.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Eldredge family began brewing in the former Portsmouth Stocking Factory around 1858, and the M. Fisher Brewing Company soon opened with Marcellus Eldredge in charge. His father, Heman Eldredge, bought the firm in 1870 and renamed it the H. Eldredge and Son Company. They shortened the name to the Eldredge Brewing Company in 1875, with Marcellus Eldredge acting as the President and Treasurer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Marcellus, who served as the Mayor of Portsmouth in 1885 and 1886, lived on the corner of Islington and Cornwall Streets, opposite what became known as <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/04/goodwin-park-and-soldiers-and-sailors.html">Goodwin Park</a>. In 1887, <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/09/governor-goodwin-mansion.html">Governor Goodwin's</a> heirs sold the parcel of land to the city for a small fee with the requirement that it be used as a public park. At the same time, wealthy and powerful Marcellus Eldredge solicited help from residents to buy a Civil War statue for the new Goodwin Park. The resulting Soldiers and Sailors Monument still stands today, although in a shorter, frequently-repaired condition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Marcellus ran the company until retiring in 1891. Afterwards, his younger brother, H. Fisher Eldredge, purchased his share of the holdings and took over as President. (Heman?) Fisher Eldredge lived in the </span><a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/07/montgomery-eldredge-house.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Montgomery-Eldredge House</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> on Merrimac Street.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Today, the original ice vault for beer storage still exists, on the left side of both photographs. The ornamental podium in the center of the wall once held a large statue of King Gambrinus, the patron saint of beer and brewing, holding up a large glass of beer. What is left of the </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Eldredge Brewing Company is now an office building called Eldredge Park.</span><br />
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<br />Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-21204731731180883702014-01-06T14:49:00.000-05:002014-01-06T14:53:21.803-05:00Edward Cutts House<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Edward Cutts House stands on Cutts’ Hill on the northeast corner of Maplewood Avenue and Cutts Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Edward Cutts, a wealthy Portsmouth merchant, married Mary Carter in 1796, and over the next decade, they had seven children. Unfortunately, only three of their offspring survived into adulthood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The first two, Mary (July 1797) and Samuel (August 1798), lived barely a month. Their third child, Anna Holyoke Cutts (May 1799), died before her sixth birthday. Another Mary, born in April 1801, lived to the ripe old age of eighty-one. Their next son, Hampden Cutts (August 1803), grew up, married, and lived seventy-one years. Their sixth child was Edward Holyoke Cutts (June 1804), who did not survive a year, and their last child, Anna Holyoke Cutts (May 1807), lived less than twenty-three years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Cutts built this house and moved in with </span><span style="font-size: large;">their surviving offspring </span><span style="font-size: large;">around the year 1810. Edward lived here until his death in 1824.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Hampden Cutts owned the property until 1833, at which time he moved to Vermont for the rest of his life. Hampden attended Philips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard in 1823. He studied law with <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/06/jeremiah-mason-house.html">Jeremiah Mason</a> and edited the Portsmouth newspaper, <i>Signs of the Times</i>. His wife was Mary Pepperrell Sparhawk Jarvis, and they had nine children together, although five of <i>THEIR</i> children also died before reaching adulthood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Edward was the son of Captain Samuel Cutts and Anna Holyoke Cutts. Captain Cutts was a prosperous merchant and ship owner at the time of the Revolutionary war. A Portsmouth patriot, he was a member of the New Hampshire Assembly and helped create the New Hampshire Declaration of Independence in 1776. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Paul Revere, before his more famous ride, rode to Portsmouth on December 13, 1774, with a message for Captain Cutts warning that a British military force was on its way to Newcastle to occupy Fort William and Mary (now known as Fort Constitution). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This led to the first armed confrontation of the war on the following night when Portsmouth patriots, possibly including Samuel Cutts, seized the fort and spirited away one hundred barrels of gunpowder. The following night, they confiscated all of the fort’s light artillery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This grand mansion atop a tiered hill looks quite similar to its appearance when the photograph above appeared in C. S. Gurney's 1902 book, <i>Portsmouth . . . Historic and Picturesque</i>.</span><br />
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Ron Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717776729798588182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387881583613642572.post-76724679552073008262013-12-21T19:17:00.000-05:002013-12-21T19:24:09.195-05:00The Great Portsmouth Fire of 1813<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sunday, December 22, 2013 is the bicentennial anniversary of the worse disaster to ever strike Portsmouth. Two hundred years ago, around seven o’clock on the evening of December 22, 1813, a blaze was discovered in a barn owned by the widow of Colonel Moses Woodward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What would become known as The Great Portsmouth Fire began on the northwest corner of Church and Court Streets, where the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/03/stone-church.html">Stone Church</a> is located today. The burning barn quickly spread flames to the neighboring buildings. As townspeople struggled to limit the damage, swirling winds began lofting flaming material into the air over the heart of Portsmouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Conditions were perfect for a firestorm, and soon sparks carried by the wind began randomly setting fire to buildings on State Street and the surrounding areas. The town’s firefighting efforts, consisting of water-bucket brigades and hand-pumped engines, were quickly overwhelmed as blazes burned out of control in various locations and continued to spread. Flames from burning buildings on both sides of State Street, which was much narrower than it is today, joined above the roadway and created an arch of fire over the road. Many volunteers dashed into burning houses to rescue furniture and other belongings. Household objects were stacked in the street. Looting occurred during and after the fire, and at least one person fighting the fires had his pocket picked. The inferno grew and grew until light from the fires could be seen as far away as Boston, Massachusetts; Windsor, Vermont; and Providence, Rhode Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">People from neighboring towns, including Exeter, Dover, and Durham, helped fight the flames. Citizens from as far away as Berwick, ME and Newburyport, MA arrived. Hand-pumpers from Exeter and Dover helped save </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the South End. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Commodore Isaac Hull, commander of the </span><a href="http://www.walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-uss-constitution-at-pnsy.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Portsmouth Naval Yard</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and the crews of Navy ships in port pitched in. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The inferno raged for six hours, until about 1 o’clock on the morning of December 23, before the firefighters got control. Forty people arrived from Salem, MA around three o’clock in the morning and kept an eye on the smoking ashes while exhausted townspeople who had battled the flames all night found somewhere to sleep. The following night, Christmas Eve, Newburyport sent eighty or ninety men to help guard the charred remains and stacks of belongings that littered the streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The fire destroyed State Street from the burning barn to the Piscataqua River shoreline and even torched the Portsmouth Pier and all its warehouses at the end of the street. Among the losses was an historic, castle-like mansion once owned by Sheriff Thomas Packer, who was notorious for hanging <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2012/10/tragic-tale-of-ruth-blay.html">Ruth Blay</a>, the last woman executed in New Hampshire. The prosperous merchant, James Sheafe, Jr., lost his home on the north side of State Street opposite Washington Street, and the house where Daniel Webster lived, on the northwest corner of Court and Pleasant Streets, also burned. Portsmouth’s library and about a thousand books were lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Destroyed were approximately one hundred and eighty homes and sixty-four barns and shops; some estimates put the destruction as high as two hundred and seventy-two buildings. Fifteen acres of the center of Portsmouth were in ruins: 1/3 of a mile from west to east and 1/8 of a mile south to north. Property damages amounted to $250,000 -$300,000. Afterwards, charitable donations of precisely $77,273 were collected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Losses from this fire were so devastating that the NH Fire and Marine Insurance Company, incorporated after the first Great Portsmouth Fire in 1802, went bankrupt. Their building in Market Square was later sold to the <a href="http://walkportsmouth.blogspot.com/2011/06/portsmouth-atheneum.html">Portsmouth Athenaeum</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As a result of the fire, the third Christmastime inferno to devastate Portsmouth in eleven years (1802, 1806, and 1813), the town voted to request state legislation banning wooden structures over 12 feet –one story high – within the town limits. The resulting “Brick Act” was controversial but resulted in the Portsmouth we know today. Most buildings on State Street, from Pleasant Street to Marcy Street, Daniel Street, and Market Street are brick for this reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Years later it was discovered that the barn fire that started it all had been deliberately set by a disgruntled servant of the Widow Woodward. Angry that her employer had confiscated some bottles of wine given to her by a boarder, the young woman retaliated by setting fire to the barn.</span><br />
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