Exterior view, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

Description

An exterior view from across Mechanic Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Posrtsmouth, New Hampshire before the restoration of Wallace Nutting. A picket fence surrounds the property. The shutters of the first floor windows are open while those of the second floor are closed. Curving braces support the pediment above the front door, the stairs to which has railings. Two boats lie in the yard of the house across the street. 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.