John Paul Jones House
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Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The John Paul Jones House is a historic house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, it is where American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, resided from 1781 to 1782 when it was operated as a boarding house. He also lived in a home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Caroline Street, owned by his brother.
History
The <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1758 by the master housewright Hopestill Cheswell, a successful African-American builder in the city.[1] The house was built for Captain Gregory Purcell, who owned it with his wife Sarah until his death in 1776.[2]
After Purcell's death his wife took in boarders, until her own death in 1783. The American naval hero John Paul Jones rented a room at the widow Purcell's during 1781–1782, while supervising construction of the ship America.[2][3]
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972.[4][2]
Description
The house is <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />2+1⁄2 stories high, with a gambrel roof, and two chimneys projecting from the interior. A two-story addition to the northeast was added in the early 19th century. The five-bay main facade has a central entry topped by a segmented arch pediment, supported by flanking pilasters. The first floor windows of the main facade are topped by triangular pediments. The interior of the house follows a typical Georgian center-hall plan, with rooms flanking a central hall with stairs. To the left of the hall are a parlor in front, and a counting room or office in the rear, while to the right is a large dining room with what was originally the kitchen behind. Upstairs there are four bedrooms; that of Jones was in the southeast corner. The third floor has five bedrooms.[2]
The downstairs rooms now contain museum exhibits, and the dining room has been decorated to early 19th-century taste. The house has belonged to the Portsmouth Historical Society since 1919, and is open to the public.[2]
See also
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- John Paul Jones Cottage Museum, birthplace of Jones in Scotland
- List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
References
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- ↑ Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage, (2004), pp. 32-33, accessed 27 July 2009
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- ↑ Jones died in Paris in the house at 19 Rue de Tournon in 1792.
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External links
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- "John Paul Jones House", Portsmouth Historical Society
- "John Paul Jones", Seacoast New Hampshire
- Mario de`y Cocom, "Cheswell", The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families, PBS Frontline, 1995-2012
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- National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
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- Historic house museums in New Hampshire
- Biographical museums in New Hampshire
- Museums in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- History museums in New Hampshire
- Houses in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- National Register of Historic Places in Portsmouth, New Hampshire