1915
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
GUSN-195421
Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume sits on the landing at the turning of a staircase. 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.
stairs
houses
Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
interior views
dwellings
staged photographs
landings (stair components)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
4 (handwritten)
DigitalID 000546
AccessID 765
Other identifier HNEDID-000546
Nutting studio number 9007
1 photographic print : black-and-white, mounted ; 10 x 8 inches
1 photographic print : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches
PC039
Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s
1915-12-01
PC039.USNH.03.040
Museum Purchase
Copyright date listed as 1915 in Richard M. Candee, Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 64. Mounted copy puchased on Dec. 12, 1912. Unmounted copy purchased on Apr. 26, 1916.
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
New Nutting studio number listed as 9011 in Richard M. Candee. Wallace Nutting's Portsmouth, 40.
Wentworth-Gardner stair
Item
Nutting Collection: New Hampshire: Portsmouth: Wentworth Gardner House
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