Harbour Trail

The Portsmouth Athenæum  is a non-profit membership library and museum incorporated in 1817. Membership libraries were first created in the 18th century for the mutual...

Market Street, a remarkable collection of commercial buildings, retains much of its original character despite continuous alterations over the past 190 years. Cast-iron storefronts added...

William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and husband of Katherine Moffatt, lived and died in this house. Portraits, letters, manuscripts, fine furnishings,...

Albacore Park, adjacent to Market Street Extension (Exit 7 off I-95), is the home to the USS Albacore, once the fastest submarine in the world....

Since the 1930s, this pier on Ceres Street has been home to several 100-foot tugboats that guide tankers and other large commercial vessels safely through...

Bow Street evolved from an early 18th-century path that connected the city’s two primary waterfront areas, Ceres Street and today’s Prescott Park. Its brick warehouse...

The 1,201-foot  Memorial Bridge is the only Piscataqua River bridge with provisions for pedestrians and bicycles.  The first truss bridge of its kind, it replaced...

The Warner House is the only surviving mansion of many that once lined Daniel Street. Built in 1716-18, it is the region’s finest urban brick...

This 1817 building served as Portsmouth’s Custom House and Post Office from about 1817 to 1858. Both then moved to the large granite Federal Building...

The Gov. John Langdon House, two blocks east of Market Square, reflects the wealth and position of merchant and patriot leader John Langdon, who was...

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was founded by the U.S. Congress on June 12, 1800, as the first of six public shipyards. In 1905, the Treaty of...

Strawbery Banke, a unique outdoor urban history museum, explores how ordinary people lived during four centuries. Forty buildings, most on their original sites, trace the...

Originally called the Rockingham Hotel, the State Street building was once owned by Frank Jones, Portsmouth’s 19th-century millionaire entrepreneur and celebrated ale-maker. After Jones’ 1884...

The Rundlet-May House, which retains its original 1807 stables and layout, was the home of James Rundlet, a textile merchant and investor. The home-museum exhibits...

Godfrey Purcel’s widow boarded John Paul Jones in this 1761 building while his ships Ranger (1777) and America (1781) were outfitted at the Langdon yards.

A plank and frame building built in 1664, the Richard Jackson House is the oldest standing building in New Hampshire.