Portsmouth Historic Houses Association Celebrates Sail ...



Portsmouth Historic Houses Association Celebrates Sail Portsmouth with Half-Price Admissions

Portsmouth, New Hampshire (June 5, 2014) – Sail Portsmouth returns on the weekend of August 2 & 3, 2014 when the tallships Lynx and Mystic sail into Portsmouth. To celebrate, the members of the Portsmouth Historic Houses Association welcome Sail Portsmouth visitors to learn more about the people who lived in Portsmouth when the city was a major maritime trading port. Each site offers 2-for-1 admission when visitors present the Sail Portsmouth 2014 brochure available at the Pierce Island Fish Pier where the sailing ships are docked.

Participating sites offering special admissions include: Warner House, Wentworth-Lear Historic Houses, the Wentworth Coolidge Mansion, the John Paul Jones House Museum, Strawbery Banke Museum, the Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, Historic New England’s Governor John Langdon House and garden and the Portsmouth Historical Society’s Discover Portsmouth Center. All ten historic sites will offer the Sail Portsmouth discount throughout the Sail Portsmouth weekend: Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3, 2014.

The Portsmouth Historic Houses Association and partners present centuries-old historic houses and vessels, some of the most important in America. Within the architectural treasures, a multitude of rooms with authentic antique furnishings reveal poignant stories of family life in a thriving seaport community, while the historic vessels detail chapters of Portsmouth’s history afloat. Seafaring merchants, enterprising women, military heroes, politicians, skilled craftsmen, domestic servants, Africans and recent immigrants are some of the characters who share their stories. Portsmouth’s natural harbor made her the nation’s third-oldest city and home to the oldest US Navy shipyard. The historic houses and the history of the city are closely matched to the rise and fall of maritime interests, especially the ships’ captains and naval officers who made their homes here, some quite lavishly.

“The Sail Portsmouth Celebration at Portsmouth’s historic sites is meant to encourage visitors to explore historic Portsmouth and learn about the people for whom sailing ships were familiar sites,” said Lawrence J. Yerdon, President and CEO of Strawbery Banke Musuem, a participant in the celebration.

Information on locations and hours available at each website and at :

• Warner House, 150 Daniel Street,

• Wentworth-Lear Historic Houses, 50 Mechanic Street,

• Wentworth Coolidge Mansion, 375 Little Harbor Road,

• John Paul Jones House Museum, 43 Middle Street,

• Strawbery Banke Museum, 14 Hancock Street,

• Moffatt-Ladd House & Gardens, 154 Market Street, moffatt-

• Governor John Langdon House, 143 Pleasant Street,

• Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Street.

Image caption: Harbor, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (c. 1910) by Margaret Jordan Patterson, from the Strawbery Banke Museum collection.

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