Houses and mansions in Portsmouth
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Portsmouth register is houses than any other kind of building, 28 listings of it in all.
The stops that carry a construction date run from 1720 to 1835. 15 stops, 0.9 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data, or from Wikidata where the spatial data has no point. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Shapley Town House454-456 Court St.Building · listed 1973start
- 2Gov. John Wentworth House346 Pleasant St.Building · listed 19730.2 mi from stop 1
- 3General Porter House32--34 Livermore St.Building · listed 1985237 ft from stop 2
- 4Haven–White House229 Pleasant St.Building · listed 198574 ft from stop 3
- 5Benedict House30 Middle St.Building · listed 19730.4 mi from stop 4
- 6Samuel Beck HouseThe HillBuilding · listed 19730.2 mi from stop 5
- 7Whidden-Ward HouseThe HillBuilding · built 1720 · listed 1971218 ft from stop 6
- 8Jeremiah Hart HouseThe HillBuilding · listed 197299 ft from stop 7
- 9John Hart HouseThe HillBuilding · built 1835 · listed 1972same block from stop 8
- 10Phoebe Hart HouseThe HillBuilding · listed 1973same block from stop 9
- 11Hart-Rice HouseThe HillBuilding · built 1752 · listed 1972same block from stop 10
- 12James Neal House74 Deer St.Building · built 1831 · listed 1972same block from stop 11
- 13Nutter–Rymes House48 School St.Building · listed 1972same block from stop 12
- 14Daniel Pinkham HouseThe HillBuilding · listed 1972same block from stop 13
- 15Henry Sherburne HouseThe HillBuilding · built 1766 · listed 1972same block from stop 14
0.9 straight-line miles over 14 legs.
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 15 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
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