1914
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195383
This interior view shows the north parlor in the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A marine painting of a ship hangs above the mantelpiece of the fireplace, which has been filled in. Corinthian pilasters flank the fireplace. Photographs and vases adorn the mantel. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the house and lived there until he died in 1833. In 1915, Wallace Nutting purchased the house, restored the building, and added it as one of the five sites in his for-profit enterprise, the Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses.
parlors
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
mantels
interior views
marines (visual works)
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000518
AccessID 725
Other identifier HNEDID-000518
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1915-01-12
PC039.USNH.03.009
Museum Purchase
Date listed as 1914 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 46.
10 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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