Mark Wentworth House

Gov. John Wentworth House

c. 1902 photograph
Location 346 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Coordinates 43°4′25″N 70°45′14″W / 43.07361°N 70.75389°W / 43.07361; -70.75389Coordinates: 43°4′25″N 70°45′14″W / 43.07361°N 70.75389°W / 43.07361; -70.75389
Built 1763
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP Reference # 73000175
Added to NRHP June 29, 1973[1]

The Mark Wentworth House, also known as the Gov. John Wentworth House, is a historic house at 346 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The 2-1/2 story wood-frame mansion was built in 1763 by Henry Appleton, a merchant, who sold it to Mark Hunking Wentworth, one of New Hampshire's wealthiest merchants and landowners, the following year. Wentworth's son John was appointed Royal Governor of New Hampshire in 1767, and occupied the house from then until his departure on the eve of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Despite the governor's occupancy, Mark Wentworth transferred the property to his daughter Anna Fisher in 1770. It was sold out of the Wentworth family in 1797, and repurchased by Ebenezer Wentworth in 1810.[2] In the early 1900s Wentworth descendants adapted the property for use as an elder care facility, a role it continues to serve today.[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Gov. John Wentworth House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  3. ↑ "History". Mark Wentworth Home. Retrieved 2014-07-30.


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