1915
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195399
This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 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. This image is very similar to studio no. 9042, "Wentworth-Gardner Lower Hall", except without the model in period costume.
entrance halls
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
interior views
dwellings
stairs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
copy prints
#4 (handwritten)
DigitalID 000534
AccessID 741
Other identifier HNEDID-000534
Nutting studio number 9042
1 copy print : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches
Paper finding aid available in the Library and Archives.
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1939-05-15
PC039.USNH.03.005
Museum Purchase
Copyright date. Copy print date: 1939.
10 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
copy prints
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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