Sail Maker John Holbrook
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19th century Sail Makers / SeacoastNH.com
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HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #114

This 1830s gambrel-roofed sailmaking shop stood directly across from the Moffatt-Ladd House on Market Street until 1884. John R. Holbrook made sails, awnings, tents and canvas bags. After Holbook the building was used by a shoemaker and a carpenter. The downstairs shop on Ceres Street housed George Fernald’s boat shop, then a gas station. Today it is a vacant lot.

 

 

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Sail Maker shop of John Holbrook roughly 1884 in Portsmouth, NH (c) Strawbery Banke Archive

From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
(c) Strawbery Banke Museum . All rights reserved

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Sign 1994 on Market Street, Portsmouth, NH / SeacoastNH.com