Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #43

This rare 1857 ambrotype is the only known image of one of Portsmouth’s early hotels. It stood on Pleasant Street where the Custom House building is today. This solid building – with its clapboard front and brick sides – was originally Farmer’s Hotel. Built in the 1830s, it therefore was part of the downtown for a fleeting 30 years or less.

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From HISIORIC 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.

BONUS IMAGE" Close-up of group. Too bad we don't know who they are or why they are gathered in from of the hotel.