Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion is a building in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1968.
Plan your visit
- Access
- Open to visitors
Source: NH State Parks: https://www.nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/wentworth-coolidge-mansion · last verified November 1, 2026 - Location
- Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Official website
- See the official website
- Directions
- Get directions
National Register listing does not mean a place is open to the public. Parking and accessibility are shown only when verified.
About this place
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion is open to visitors and run by NH State Parks, according to its official visitor page (verified November 1, 2026). The National Park Service records its period of significance as 1650 to 1799, with significance in architecture.
Wentworth–Coolidge Mansion is a 40-room clapboard house which was built as the home, offices and working farm of colonial Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. It is located on the water at 375 Little Harbor Road, about two miles southeast of the center of Portsmouth. It is one of the few royal governors' residences to survive almost unchanged. The site is a New Hampshire state park, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The New Hampshire Bureau of Historic Sites manages the site with the assistance of the Wentworth-Coolidge Commission, a group of volunteer civic and business leaders appointed by the Governor.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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