Henry Sherburne House

Coordinates: 43°4′44″N 70°45′41″W / 43.07889°N 70.76139°W

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Henry Sherburne House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	The Hill, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°4′44″N 70°45′41″W / 43.07889°N 70.76139°W / 43.07889; -70.76139
Area	less than one acre
Built	1766 (1766)
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	72000087^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 7, 1972

The Henry Sherburne House is a historic house at 62 Deer Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built about 1766, it is a well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture in the city, distinctive for its scrolled pediment entrance surrounded, the only in situ period example of its style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.^[1]

Description and history

The Henry Sherburne House stands on the west side of The Hill, a cluster of historic houses southwest of the junction of Deer and High Streets. Many of these houses, the Sherburne House among them, were relocated to this area as part of a road widening project. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboarded exterior, set facing west toward Deer Street near its junction with Russell Street. Its front-facing roof is pierced by three gabled dormers, whose scrolled pediments echo that found above the main entrance. The front facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance at its center, flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and elaborate broken scrolled pediment. The roof line is adorned with a heavy modillioned cornice.^[2]

This house was built sometime between 1766 and 1770, and originally faced east toward Deer Street prior to being moved to this location. It 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. It is believed that this pediment was used as a model by preservationist Wallace Nutting when he undertook the restoration of the Wentworth-Gardner House.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Henry Sherburne House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-07-19.

National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Religious	Chester Congregational Church Danville Meetinghouse First Church First Universalist Church Freewill Baptist Church-Peoples Baptist Church-New Hope Church Fremont Meeting House Hampstead Meetinghouse New Castle Congregational Church Northwood Congregational Church Sanborn Seminary Sandown Old Meetinghouse Searles School and Chapel South Parish St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea St. John's Church Union Meetinghouse-Universalist Church Unitarian Church
Residential	Bartlett-Cushman House Benedict House Benjamin Franklin Prescott House Benjamin James House Capt. Jonathan Currier House Cornet Thomas Wiggin House Daniel Pinkham House Deacon Samuel and Jabez Lane Homestead Drake Farm Dudley House Edward Sewall Garrison Elijah Locke House Elm Farm Emery Farm Gen. Mason J. Young House General Porter House George Rogers House Gilman Garrison House Gov. John Wentworth House Gov. Meshech Weare House Greeley House Hart-Rice House Haven-White House Henry Sherburne House James Neal House Jeremiah Hart House John Crockett House John Elkins Farmstead John Hart House Joshua Wentworth House † Larkin-Rice House Maj. John Gilman House Moses-Kent House Nutter-Rymes House Parsons Homestead Phoebe Hart House Reuben Lamprey Homestead Rundlet-May House Samuel Beck House Samuel Tenney House Scamman Farm Shapley Town House Simeon P. Smith House Weeks House Whidden-Ward House
Transportation	Newington Railroad Depot Raymond Boston and Maine Railroad Depot Sandown Depot, Boston and Maine Railroad
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‡ This entry also has portions in an adjacent state.
† This entry has been removed from the registry.

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