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USS Albacore

USS Albacore was a unique research submarine that pioneered the American version of the teardrop hull form of modern submarines. The revolutionary design was derived from extensive hydrodynamic and wind tunnel testing, with an emphasis on underwater speed and maneuverability. She was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the albacore, a small tuna found in temperate seas throughout the world. Her keel was laid down on 15 March 1952 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard of Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 1 August 1953, sponsored by Mrs. J.E. Jowers, the widow of Chief Motor Machinists Mate Arthur L. Stanton, lost with the second Albacore, and commissioned on 6 December 1953 with Lieutenant Commander Kenneth C. Gummerson in command. The effectiveness of submarines in World War II convinced both the Soviets and the United States Navy that undersea warfare would play an even more important role in coming conflicts and dictated development of superior submarines. The advent of nuclear power nourished the hope that such warships could be produced. The effort to achieve this goal involved the development of a nuclear propulsion system and the design of a streamlined submarine hull capable of optimum submerged performance.

Water Country

Water Country, touted as being "New Englands Largest, Cleanest, Safest, and Friendliest Waterpark", is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It opened in 1984 and was owned by the Samuels family until they were bought out by Festival Fun Parks in 2000. The park is now owned by Palace Entertainment and has a number of slides and swimming pools that range for all ages. The park is not affiliated with Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks-owned Water Country USA, a Virginia water park which also opened in 1984.

Portsmouth Athenæum

The Portsmouth Athenæum is an independent membership library, gallery and museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It preserves material relevant to local history, and sponsors exhibitions, concerts and lectures for its proprietors, scholars and the general public. The building has been listed as the "Portsmouth Athenaeum" on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.

Strawbery Banke

Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures. The buildings once clustered around a waterway known as Puddle Dock, which was filled in around 1900. Today the former waterway appears as a large open space.

John Paul Jones House

The John Paul Jones House is a historic house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, it is most significant as the only known structure associated with American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, who was resident here in 1781-82 when it was operated as a boarding house.

Governor John Langdon House

The Governor John Langdon House, also known as Governor John Langdon Mansion, is a historic mansion house at 141 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. It was built in 1784 by John Langdon, a merchant, shipbuilder, American Revolutionary War general, signer of the United States Constitution, and three-term President of New Hampshire. The house he built for his family showed his status as Portsmouths leading citizen and received praise from George Washington, who visited there in 1789. Its reception rooms are ornamented by elaborate wood carving in the rococo style. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974, and is now a house museum operated by Historic New England. The house Langdon had built resembles typical late Georgian houses, with five bays across, a center entry, and four rooms on each floor, flanking a grand central hall and stairway. It is built on a larger and grander scale than most houses, and has very high quality interior woodwoork. The interior joinery is attributed to Ebenezer Clifford, a leading woodworker of the Portsmouth area. The main entry is also particularly elaborate with a large door flanked by pairs of engaged columns, and sheltered by a semi-circular portico supported by Corinthian columns and topped by a balustrade. After Langdons death in 1819, his lone surviving daughter continued to use the house, but did not live there. Between 1833 and 1902 the house passed through several hands. In the 1850s a fire severely damaged the southwest corner of the house, which was reconstructed. In 1877 the house came into the hands of Frances E. Bassett, a descendant of John Langdons brother Woodbury. Her son and daughter-in-law, Woodbury and Elizabeth Langdon, converted the house into a Colonial Revival showplace, adding a two-story wing designed by McKim, Mead White whose details harmonize well with the original structure, and include a dining room based on one built by the ancestral Woodbury Langdon and preserved in the Rockingham Hotel. Elizabeth Langdon deeded the property to Historic New England in 1947. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It is open to the public for tours on weekends from June to October, and the grounds are available for functions.

Moffatt-Ladd House

The Moffatt-Ladd House, also known as the William Whipple House, is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 154 Market Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The 1763 Georgian house was the home of William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War general. The house is now owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames in New Hampshire, and is open to the public. Among the contents are Whipples sword and other personal items, along with a portrait of him. Outside is a horse chestnut tree that Whipple planted in 1776 with seeds that he brought back from Philadelphia. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

MacPheadris-Warner House

The Warner House, also known as the MacPheadris-Warner House, is a historic house museum at 150 Daniel Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. Built 1716-18, it is the oldest, urban brick house in northern New England, and is one of the finest early-Georgian brick houses in New England. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Warner House is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with walls 15 inches thick laid in Flemish bond. A belt course separates the two main floors, and the slightly overhanging cornice is studded with modillions. It now has a gambrel roof; this is a later modification to what was originally a pair of side gable pitches with a deep valley between them. At the break line in the gambrel there is a low balustrade. The cupola was listed in the original 1716-bill by John Drew, master-builder. The interior of the house follows a typical Georgian four-room plan, with an added kitchen wing in the rear. The walls of the central hall and stairway are decorated with four murals that are the oldest, extant Anglo-American wall murals in the country. The house was built for Capt. Archibald Macpheadris, a Scots-Irish sea captain who settled in Portsmouth. He married Sarah Wentworth, daughter of John Wentworth . Macpheadris died in 1729, and the house passed to his wife and children.

Richard Jackson House

The Richard Jackson House is a historic house at 76 Northwest Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1664 by Richard Jackson, it is the oldest wood-frame house in New Hampshire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It is now a historic house museum owned by Historic New England, and is open two Saturdays a month between June and October. Richard Jackson was a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, and built the oldest portion of this house on his familys 25-acre plot, located on an inlet off the Piscataqua River, north of Portsmouths central business district. Jacksons house resembles English post-medieval prototypes, but is notably American in its extravagant use of wood. The house as first built consisted of a two story structure with two rooms on each floor, flanking a massive central chimney. Not long afterward, a leanto section was added to the rear of the house, which slopes nearly to the ground. Further single-story additions were made to the gable ends of the house, probably c. 1764. The founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, William Sumner Appleton, acquired the house for SPNEA in 1924 from a member of the seventh generation of Jacksons to live there. Appleton undertook a restoration of the property, removing 19th century modifications, and providing the building with leaded diamond-pane windows of a type that it would have had in the 17th century. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The George Rogers House, located just east of the Jackson house, is also a Historic New England property, but is not open to the public.

Rundlet-May House

The Rundlet-May House is a historic house at 364 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. The three story wood frame house was built in 1807 by James Rundlet, who acquired his wealth in the textile trade. Rundlet imported his wallpapers from England and purchased his furniture from local cabinetmakers, whose work was noted for its fine craftsmanship and striking use of veneer. Rundlet also saw to it that his house was equipped with the latest technologies. The kitchen boasts both a Rumford roaster and a Rumford range, as well as a set kettle and an elaborate venting system that services a smoke room on the third floor. There is an early coal-fired central heating system and an indoor well. Details of the houses construction are well-documented, because Rundlet and his heirs retained detailed records of work done on it. Ralph May, a descendant of Rundlet, gave the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. The house contains many of its original furnishings, as well as some pieces added by later generations. The formal gardens, orchard, and attached outbuildings remain as first used by Rundlet, and there is also a small pet cemetery on the grounds. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is open to the public on weekends between June and October.

Wentworth Lear Historic Houses

The Wentworth Lear Historic Houses are a pair of adjacent historic houses at 50 Mechanic Street, on the south waterfront in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Both buildings and an 18th-century warehouse are owned by the Wentworth Lear Historic Houses and are operated as a house museum. They are located at the corner of Mechanic and Gardner Streets. The two houses, built c. 1750-60, represent a study in contrast between high-style and vernacular Georgian styling. The Wentworth-Gardner House is a National Historic Landmark, and the houses are listed as the Wentworth-Gardner and Tobias Lear Houses on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wentworth-Gardner House

The Wentworth-Gardner House is a historic late-Georgian house, located at 140 Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The house is operated as museum by the Wentworth-Gardner and Tobias Lear Houses Association, along with the adjacent Tobias Lear House. It is one of the finest extant examples of high-style Georgian architecture in New England, and played a role in the architectural preservation movement of the early 20th century. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion

Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion is a 40-room clapboard house which was built as the home, offices and working farm of colonial Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. It is located on the water at 375 Little Harbor Road, about two miles southeast of the center of Portsmouth. It is one of the few royal governors' residences to survive almost unchanged. The site is a New Hampshire state park, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. Today, the New Hampshire Bureau of Historic Sites manages the site with the assistance of the Wentworth-Coolidge Commission, a group of volunteer civic and business leaders appointed by the Governor.

Memorial Bridge

The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badgers Island in Kittery, Maine, United States. A large overhead plaque facing traffic on the bridge reads "Memorial to the Sailors and Soldiers of New Hampshire who gave their lives in the World War 1917–1919." The lift span can be fully opened to allow large commercial vessels to pass. During summer, the lift section remains partially elevated every half-hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for about 15 minutes. This allows smaller commercial and recreational boat traffic. The bridge is currently the only one of the three Piscataqua River bridges with provisions for pedestrians and bicycles. New Hampshire and Maine designated the bridge as part of their State Bicycle Routes, and the bridge is part of the proposed East Coast Greenway.

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion is a 40-room clapboard house which was built as the home, offices and working farm of colonial Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. It is located on the water at 375 Little Harbor Road, about two miles southeast of the center of Portsmouth. It is one of the few royal governors residences to survive almost unchanged. The site is a New Hampshire state park, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. Today, the New Hampshire Bureau of Historic Sites manages the site with the assistance of the Wentworth-Coolidge Commission, a group of volunteer civic and business leaders appointed by the Governor.

South Parish

South Parish is a church at 292 State Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the United States. The granite church building was built in 1824-26, and was at the time one of the first large-scale granite buildings in northern New England. It is built of granite quarried in Rockport, Massachusetts, and features a classical pedimented portico supported by Tuscan columns. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The congregation is a covenanting member of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, and is an accredited Green Sanctuary. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion. The church is a Welcoming Congregation for bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people.

General Porter House

The General Porter House is a historic house at 32-34 Livermore Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1751 by Matthew Livermore, who was New Hampshire's first formally-educated lawyer, and was a representative to New Hampshire's provisional government during the American Revolutionary War. A "Portsmouth double house", it is five bays wide and two deep, with additions on either side, and an ell to the rear. The house has been moved twice, both times in the 19th century. Another major owner was Samuel Coues, a leader of the shipbuilding industry in Portsmouth during the 19th century, and General Fitz John Porter, a United States Army general who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Hart-Rice House

The Hart-Rice House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced historic buildings southeast of Deer Street, some of which were moved to the site as part of a road widening project. The two story wood frame house was built sometime between 1749 and 1756 by Samuel Hart, Jr. It has a hip roof, with two chimneys, and three original gable dormers piercing the roof on the main facade. The main entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by a triangular pediment. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Henry Sherburne House

The Henry Sherburne House is a historic house at 62 Deer Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is part of a cluster of houses in an area known as The Hill, south of Deer Street, that was created as part of a road widening project. This two story wood frame house was built sometime between 1766 and 1770, and is an unusually large house for this part of Portsmouth in the late Georgian period. Its front doorway is also distinctive, as the only known in situ scrolled pediment doorway to survive from the period in the entire state. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Jeremiah Hart House

The Jeremiah Hart House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced historic houses off Deer Street, some of which were moved to that location as part of a road widening project. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame house which was built in the late 18th century, possibly by Michael Whidden, a master builder who lived across the street from its original location. It is a modest vernacular structure typical of houses which were built in urban Portsmouth at the time. It has well-preserved interior and exterior details of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Whidden-Ward House

The Whidden-Ward House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of historic properties south of Deer Street which was created as part of a road widening project. The 2-1/2 story wood frame Georgian style house is thought to have been built in the early 1720s by Michael Whidden, a joiner. After his death in 1773 the house was purchased by Nathum Ward, who extensively renovated the property, giving it most of its surviving late-Georgian appearance. The only major addition to the house was a 19th-century leanto extension to the rear. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

John Hart House

The John Hart House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced houses south of Deer Street, some of which were relocated there during a road widening project. When first built in the mid-18th century, this house was a two story wood frame structure. Early in the 18th century a third floor was added, and it was given extensive Federal style treatment. These alterations included the replacement of original Georgian windows with long windows with eared surrounds. In the 1830s the Greek Revival portico was added, and Victorian fireplaces were also added. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Phoebe Hart House

The Phoebe Hart House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of closely spaced historic houses, some of which were moved to the site during a road widening project. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1808-10, after its original lot was subdivided. The house has basic Federal styling, except for its front door surround, which is distinctive among period houses in Portsmouth. The door is flanked by attached columns and topped by a segmented fanlight window, above which is a modillioned gable. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Haven-White House

The Haven-White House is a historic house at 229 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The house is a three-story L-shaped structure which was probably built in 1799/1800 for Joseph Haven, a prosperous merchant. The house's Federal style interior is in a remarkable state of preservation, including high quality hand-carved woodwork. The property also includes two Federal period outbuildings. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

James Neal House

The James Neal House is a historic house at 74 Deer Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The three story brick house was built c. 1830-32 by James Neal, and is distinctive as the only brick house to be built in the Deer Street area, and one of the last Federal style houses to be built in the city. The building is also virtually unaltered since its construction, with fine transitional Federal-Greek Revival styling inside, and a Federal fanlight over the main entrance. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Nutter-Rymes House

The Nutter-Rymes House is a historic house at 48 School Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1809, it is an unusual double house with an arched carriageway in the middle. The two houses were built by James Nutter for himself and Christopher Rymes, a merchant and real estate speculator, and were originally mirror-image duplicates. It is one of the best-preserved examples of the early urbanization of Portsmouth. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Daniel Pinkham House

The Daniel Pinkham House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is one of a cluster of houses known as The Hill, located south of Deer Street, that was created as the result of a road works project. The three story wood frame house was built c. 1813-15 by Daniel and Isaac Pinkham, the latter a noted local cabinetmaker, whose work is presumed to decorate the interior. Its front entry is flanked by Adamesque pilasters with rope molding, and topped by a semicircular fanlight window. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Simeon P. Smith House

The Simeon P. Smith House is a historic house in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is located on The Hill, a cluster of historic properties south of Deer Street which was created as part of a road widening project. The Federal style house was built between 1810 and 1811 for Simeon P. Smith, a Portsmouth cooper. The house features a doorway with pilasters for sides and a triangular pediment as well as two brick chimneys on either side of the roof; its interior includes Federal style cornices and ornamentation. As one of the few middle-class dwellings to survive the Portsmouth fire of 1813, the house serves as an example of a tradesman's home in Portsmouth in the early 1800s. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1972.

Atlantic Heights Development

The Atlantic Heights Development in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was started in 1918. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 for its significance in architecture and in community planning. It was designed by architects Kilham & Hopkins. The NRHP listing included 120 contributing buildings on 80 acres . The neighborhood was built during 1918-1920 as support for World War I shipyard workers at the nearby Atlantic Corporation.

Portsmouth Cottage Hospital

The Portsmouth Cottage Hospital is a former hospital building on Junkins Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The main building, built in 1895, is a long and narrow brick structure, three stories tall, which sits at the top of a knoll overlooking the South Mill Pond. This building, with several additions in the first half of the 20th century, served as the city's primary hospital facility until 1962, when new facilities were built next door. This campus was acquired by the city c. 1986, and the 1962 building was adapted for use as City Hall and police station. The 1895 building, along with a few smaller pre-1945 buildings on the campus, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The original 1895 building has been converted into senior housing.

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Top Attractions in Portsmouth

USS Albacore

Water Country

Portsmouth Athenæum

Strawbery Banke

John Paul Jones House

Governor John Langdon House

Moffatt-Ladd House

MacPheadris-Warner House

Richard Jackson House

Rundlet-May House

Wentworth Lear Historic Houses

Wentworth-Gardner House

Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion

Memorial Bridge

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion

South Parish

General Porter House

Hart-Rice House

Henry Sherburne House

Jeremiah Hart House

Whidden-Ward House

John Hart House

Phoebe Hart House

Haven-White House

James Neal House

Nutter-Rymes House

Daniel Pinkham House

Simeon P. Smith House

Atlantic Heights Development

Portsmouth Cottage Hospital

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