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Builder Worked Himself to Death
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Written by Strawbery Banke Archive
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Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #100
This incredible 15-room brick mansion was built in 1813 by Portsmouth’s most skilled neoclassical contractor. Jonathan Folsom;s (1785-1825) home stood at Richards Ave and Middle Street. Folsom also built the navy yard’s enormous Alabama Shiphouse, the granite sea wall at the Isles of Shoals and the weighty Unitarian Church before dying of over overexertion.
HISTORIC PHOTOS of the Greater Portsmouth Area appear here weekly
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
WHAT IS THERE NOW?
The Sinclair House built by ale tycoon Frank Jones for his daughter,
later a hotel and now apartment house.
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