1915
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195387
This exterior view shows the front door of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the Wallace Nutting restoration. The paneled door is surmounted by a broken scrolled pediment. 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.
broken pediments
doorways
panel doors
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
exterior views
scrolled pediments
dwellings
door heads
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 000522
AccessID 729
Other identifier HNEDID-000522
Nutting studio number 3961
1 photograph
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1939-05-15
PC039.USNH.03.046
Museum Purchase
Date listed as 1915 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 39.
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Wentworth, Elizabeth Rindge
Wentworth, Thomas, 1740-1768
Gardner, William, 1751-1834
Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Pictorial Houses
Mechanic Street (Portsmouth, N.H.)
Architectural photography
New Nutting studio number 3961 appears on the verso of the photograph and in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 39.
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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