Built in the eighteenth century for merchant John Moffatt, the Georgian mansion and garden preserve family possessions and evidence of maritime trade, revolutionary politics, elite domestic life, enslaved people, servants, and later preservation.
Founded in 1817, the Portsmouth Athenaeum is a membership library, archive, gallery, and historic interior whose collections document maritime commerce, shipbuilding, families, architecture, and the intellectual life of the seacoast.
Strawbery Banke preserves nearly ten acres of historic houses, gardens, archaeology, and landscapes on their original sites in the former Puddle Dock neighborhood. Interpretation spans Indigenous history and generations of families, immigrants, workers, craftspeople, and community change.
Completed in the early eighteenth century, the brick Warner House is the last mansion surviving on Daniel Street and preserves architecture, murals, objects, and family histories tied to Portsmouth's colonial elite and Atlantic economy.