PORTSMOUTH—
The Warner House will offer special tours of the c.1716 mansion throughout the 2011 open season. Sandra Rux, Museum and Collections Manager at the Portsmouth Historical Society, will lead a tour focuses on the museum’s many unique textiles. Light refreshments will be served after the tour. Admission is $5 for Warner House members and $10 for non-members. Registration is encouraged and can be done by calling 603-436-5909 or emailing info@warnerhouse.org. The Warner House is located at 105 Daniel Street in downtown Portsmouth.
The Warner House was occupied continuously by the Warner family until becoming a historic house museum in 1930. Family members have stayed involved with their ancestral home and collection pieces are often returned back to the museum to be placed where they were once used. The Warner House textile collection includes crewel work, magnificent reproduction nineteenth century bed-hangings and many family costumes. Visitors to the house during this tour will be shown pieces not normally on display.
The Warner House is the earliest extant brick urban mansion in New England, It was built in 1716-1718 for Captain Archibald Macpheadris and his bride-to-be Sarah Wentworth, daughter of New Hampshire’s Lieutenant Governor, John Wentworth. The long history of the house is told in rooms furnished with many of the original family pieces, documented by estate inventories and early photographs. Each room represents different owners, culminating in the recently restored parlor of Evelyn Sherburne (d. 1929), one of the last residents. The museum is open for tours from noon to 4 p.m. every day but Tuesday. Contact the Warner House at 436-5909 or visit www.warnerhouse.org.
Photo caption: Warner House in Portsmouth will offer special tours throughout the season, providing a behind-the-scenes look at areas of the museum not typically on display. (Courtesy photo)
The Warner House will offer special tours of the c.1716 mansion throughout the 2011 open season. Sandra Rux, Museum and Collections Manager at the Portsmouth Historical Society, will lead a tour focuses on the museum’s many unique textiles. Light refreshments will be served after the tour. Admission is $5 for Warner House members and $10 for non-members. Registration is encouraged and can be done by calling 603-436-5909 or emailing info@warnerhouse.org. The Warner House is located at 105 Daniel Street in downtown Portsmouth.
The Warner House was occupied continuously by the Warner family until becoming a historic house museum in 1930. Family members have stayed involved with their ancestral home and collection pieces are often returned back to the museum to be placed where they were once used. The Warner House textile collection includes crewel work, magnificent reproduction nineteenth century bed-hangings and many family costumes. Visitors to the house during this tour will be shown pieces not normally on display.
The Warner House is the earliest extant brick urban mansion in New England, It was built in 1716-1718 for Captain Archibald Macpheadris and his bride-to-be Sarah Wentworth, daughter of New Hampshire’s Lieutenant Governor, John Wentworth. The long history of the house is told in rooms furnished with many of the original family pieces, documented by estate inventories and early photographs. Each room represents different owners, culminating in the recently restored parlor of Evelyn Sherburne (d. 1929), one of the last residents. The museum is open for tours from noon to 4 p.m. every day but Tuesday. Contact the Warner House at 436-5909 or visit www.warnerhouse.org.
Photo caption: Warner House in Portsmouth will offer special tours throughout the season, providing a behind-the-scenes look at areas of the museum not typically on display. (Courtesy photo)
