South Ward Meetinghouse (Portsmouth Children's Museum)

Harbour Trail Map
Section II:
The South End

Approx 1.0 mile, 1 hour

1 & 2. Market Square and North Church 23. Bankers Row
24. U.S. Custom House
25. Ann Treadwell
Mansion
26. Gov. John Langdon House 27. Thomas Thompson House
28. City Hall
29. Haven Park
30. Lower Pleasant St.
31. Mark Wentworth Home
32. James T. Fields House
33. Joshua and Elizabeth
Peirce House
34. South Ward Meetinghouse 35. Tobias Lear House
36. Wentworth-Gardner House
37. Point of Graves
38. Peirce Island
39. Four Tree Island
40. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 41. Prescott Park 42. Sheafe Warehouse
43. Shaw Warehouse
44. Liberty Gardens
45. Liberty Pole
46. Strawbery Banke 47. Prescott Park Theater
& Dock
48. Oracle House
49. Thomas Shaw House
50. State Street
51. Temple Israel

South Ward Meetinghouse

South Ward Meeting House
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The site of the South Ward Meetinghouse was occupied in 1731 by a parish meetinghouse, which move into South Church on State Street in 1826.

In 1864, the city, which had purchased and torn down the unused meetinghouse, agreed to erect a new building. Completed in 1866, the first floor was used for many years as a school, while the second-floor auditorium provided space for public functions. Black residents celebrated Emancipation Day here in January 1882.

Since the 1970s, the city has leased the building to the Children's Museum of Portsmouth.

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