STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
14 Hancock Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-433-1100
www.strawberybanke.org
TODAY AT STRAWBERY BANKE
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MuseuM Hours
MAY 1 – OCTOBER 31 Self-guided tours, demonstrations and hands-on activities
OPEN 7 DAYS, 9 AM – 6 PM. HISTORIC HOUSE TOURS 10 AM – 5 PM
NOVEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 30
(
WEEKENDS
)
Guided walking tours and special events
Visit www.strawberybanke.org for more information.
About Our Buildings Strawbery Banke Museum is unique in
preserving neighborhood buildings original to their sites, buildings
from other Portsmouth locations rescued from demolition, and a
vast collection of objects from Portsmouth’s past.
32 buildings at Strawbery Banke are on their original sites. Four
were moved here to save them from demolition. Research and
archaeology provide an historical background for the restorations.
Additional research into the lives of former residents continues the
story and provides the basis for interpretation.
Strawbery Banke Museum is a not-for-profit educational
organization supported by admissions, sales, contributions
and membership. Strawbery Banke Museum is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Tax-deductible Gifts and Bequests support educational programs
and the preservation of Strawbery Banke Museum. For more
information on supporting the important work of Strawbery Banke
Museum, please contact the Development office at 603-422-7508.
Become a Member and receive FREE
daily admission May through October.
Join today and your admission fee is
credited to your membership. For more
information, visit the ticket desk.
Membership support helps the
Museum restore and maintain the
historic buildings and gardens, care for
the collections and provide special events
and educational programs.
For Your Safety and Comfort:
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Pets are not allowed on the grounds.
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Please do not touch or eat the plants in the gardens.
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Smoking is prohibited.
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Food and beverages are prohibited in exhibit buildings.
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Cell Phones: please be courteous to fellow museum visitors when
taking calls.
Photography and Videotaping Tripods are not permitted in exhibit
buildings. Visitors may photograph and videotape for their personal
use only. Commercial photography and special projects require
advance permission. Please contact the Director of Marketing.
Shopping The Museum Store carries a wide selection of
reproductions, crafts, books, prints, toys and other gift items
and souvenirs.
Dining
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The White Apron Café
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Mombo features creative, internationally inspired cuisine.
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The Museum Store offers a variety of snacks and hot and cold
beverages.
Restrooms are available in the Tyco Visitors Center, Jefferson House
and Penhallow House.
Members
always save!
Memebers receive free daily
admission, discounted
admission to special events
and programs and a
10% DISCOUNT
in the Museum Store
and the Café.
Puddle Dock, circa 1890
Wheelchair Accessible
Food
Shopping
Restrooms
SITE MAP
JACKSON
HOUSE
MARDEN-ABBOTT HOUSE,
STORE AND GARAGE
LOWD HOUSE
PEACOCK
HOUSE
PATCH HOUSE
JEFFERSON
HOUSE
ALDRICH
HOUSE
YEATON-WALSH
HOUSE
YEATON
HOUSE
WINN
HOUSE
WHEELWRIGHT HOUSE
WEBSTER HOUSE
WALSH
HOUSE
VICTORY
GARDEN
TYCO VISITORS CENTER
WHITE APRON CAFÉ
STOODLEY’S TAVERN
EDUCATION CENTER
STABLE
SHERBURNE
HOUSE
SHAPLEY-DRISCO
HOUSE
SHAPLEY TOWNHOUSE
SHAPIRO HOUSE
RIDER-WOOD
PRIVY
RIDER-WOOD
HOUSE
SHAPLEY HOUSE
PITT TAVERN
PENHALLOW
HOUSE
CONANT
HOUSE
ALDRICH MUSEUM
CHASE HOUSE
COTTON
TENANT
HOUSE
DINSMORE SHOP
DUNAWAY
PENHALLOW
GARAGE
GOODWIN
GARDEN
GOOKIN HOUSE
COMMUNITY
GARDENS
GREENHOUSE
HERB GARDEN
HOUGH HOUSE
JONES HOUSE
GOODWIN MANSION
CARTER
COLLECTIONS
CENTER
VICTORIAN
CHILDREN’S
GARDEN
ROWLAND
GALLERY
JACKSON
HOUSE
MARDEN-ABBOTT HOUSE,
STORE AND GARAGE
LOWD HOUSE
PEACOCK
HOUSE
PATCH HOUSE
JEFFERSON
HOUSE
ALDRICH
HOUSE
YEATON-WALSH
HOUSE
YEATON
HOUSE
WINN
HOUSE
WHEELWRIGHT HOUSE
WEBSTER HOUSE
WALSH
HOUSE
VICTORY
GARDEN
TYCO VISITORS CENTER
WHITE APRON CAFÉ
STOODLEY’S TAVERN
EDUCATION CENTER
STABLE
SHERBURNE
HOUSE
SHAPLEY-DRISCO
HOUSE
SHAPLEY TOWNHOUSE
SHAPIRO HOUSE
RIDER-WOOD
PRIVY
RIDER-WOOD
HOUSE
SHAPLEY HOUSE
PITT TAVERN
PENHALLOW
HOUSE
CONANT
HOUSE
ALDRICH MUSEUM
CHASE HOUSE
COTTON
TENANT
HOUSE
DINSMORE SHOP
DUNAWAY
PENHALLOW
GARAGE
GOODWIN
GARDEN
GOOKIN HOUSE
COMMUNITY
GARDENS
GREENHOUSE
ETHNOBOTANICAL
GARDEN
HOUGH HOUSE
JONES HOUSE
GOODWIN MANSION
CARTER
COLLECTIONS
CENTER
VICTORIAN
CHILDREN’S
GARDEN
ROWLAND
GALLERY
MUSEUM STORE
HORSE LANE
JEFFERSON STREET
PUDDLE LANE
MAST LANE
ATKINSON STREET
WHIDDEN PLACE
PUDDLE DOCK LAWN
PUDDLE DOCK LAWN
Pitt Tavern Furnished building. Revolutionary War-era tavern visited by
many dignitaries, including George Washington, John Hancock and the
Marquis de Lafayette.
Built c. 1766.
Rider-Wood House Furnished house and exhibition. Early 19
th
-century
home of English immigrant and widow Mary Rider.
Built c. 1800.
Rider-Wood Privy Reconstructed outbuilding.
Rowland Gallery Public exhibition space for the Museum. Special
Exhibits highlight pieces from the permanent collection as well as
items loaned from other institutions.
Built 2007.
Shapiro Garden Recreated vegetable garden of 1919.
Shapiro House Furnished house and exhibition. 20
th
-century home of
the Russian-Jewish immigrant Shapiro family.
Built c. 1795.
Shapley-Drisco House Furnished house. Contrasts home life in the
1790s and the 1950s.
Built c. 1795.
Shapley House Private. 18
th
-century workshop/store. Built c. 1790.
Shapley Townhouse Private. Built c. 1814.
Sherburne Garden Recreated Colonial-period, raised-bed kitchen garden
and orchard based on archaeobotanical evidence.
Sherburne House Exhibition. 17
th
-century house construction.
Built c. 1695/1703.
Stable Private. Built c. 1890/1920.
Stoodley’s Tavern The Lou and Lutza Smith Youth Learning Center serves
as an education center for school groups and Museum offices. Moved from
Daniel Street in 1966 to save it from demolition.
Built c. 1761.
Tyco Visitors Center Ticket desk, orientation film, lecture hall, White
Apron Café at Strawbery Banke serving breakfast, lunch and light supper
menu.
Built 2005; expanded 2013.
Victorian Children’s Garden A family teaching garden based in the
Victorian era. Daily scheduled activities with NH and Maine Master
Gardeners.
Victory Garden Recreated 1940s victory garden of the Pecunies family.
Walsh Garden Late 18
th
-century teaching garden.
Walsh House Reserved for special events. Home of sea captain Keyran
Walsh in the early 19
th
century. Built c. 1796.
Webster House Private. 1814–1816 home of statesman Daniel Webster
at the beginning of his law career. Moved from High Street in 1961 to
save it from demolition.
Built c. 1785.
Wheelwright House Hands-on exhibition of life in 1785 and 18th century
cooking demonstration.
Built c. 1780.
Winn House Exhibition. Late 18
th
-century home of storekeeper Timothy
Winn, brother-in-law to Thales Yeaton. Architectural styles and building
construction.
Built c. 1795.
Yeaton House Unrestored. Late 18
th
-century home to shopkeeper and
tobacconist Thales Yeaton, brother-in-law to Timothy Winn.
Built c. 1795.
Yeaton-Walsh House Unrestored. Built c. 1795.
Aldrich Garden Colonial Revival garden created in 1908.
Aldrich House Furnished house and exhibition. Victorian novelist,
poet, and editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich spent several years of
his childhood living here with his grandparents.
Built c. 1797.
Aldrich Museum Unrestored. Built c. 1908.
Carter Collections Center State-of-the art facility
constructed to house the Museum’s important
collections of furniture, ceramics, textiles, glass,
archaeological artifacts, tools, and works of art on
paper.
Built 2007.
Chase House Furnished house. Home of Stephen
Chase, an early 19
th
-century merchant. Portsmouth
furniture.
Built c. 1762.
Conant House Private. Ongoing restoration. Home of
Aaron Conant, a stagecoach driver on the Portsmouth-
Boston line in the mid-19
th
century. Built c. 1791.
Cotton Tenant House Weaving Demonstration.
Built c. 1836.
Dinsmore Shop Coopering demonstration.
Moved from Dundee, NH.
Built c. 1800.
Dunaway The Mombo restaurant features creative,
internationally inspired cuisine.
Built 1967.
Ethnobotanical Herb Garden A globe-spanning
exploration of herbs used for food, medicine, textiles
and flavor.
Goodwin Garden Recreated Victorian garden based
on an 1862 landscape plan and Sarah Goodwin’s
detailed diary. Interpreted to 1870.
Goodwin Mansion Furnished house. 1832–1896
home of Civil War governor Ichabod Goodwin and
his wife, Sarah Parker Rice Goodwin. Moved from
Islington Street in 1963 to save it from
demolition.
Built c. 1811.
Gookin House Museum Store. Moved to this site in 1878 by William
Cotton and was used as a warehouse structure.
Built c. 1790.
Greenhouse Victorian era hothouse, removed from Wentworth By the
Sea, featuring period plants.
Hough House Private. Home of Thomas Hough,
a ship’s carpenter in the late 19
th
century. Built c. 1750/1860.
Jackson House Exhibition. Comparison of structural and decorative
changes and a look at the lives of various residents of the house over a
span of 160 years.
Built c. 1790.
Jefferson House Restrooms. Built c. 1816.
Jones House Family Discovery Center and play yard. 1796–1843 home
of Joshua Jones.
Built c. 1790.
Lowd House Exhibition. 1824–1837 home of cooper
Peter Lowd. Early craftsmen’s tools and trades.
Built c. 1810.
Marden-Abbott Garage Exhibition. World War II Homefront.
Reconstructed outbuilding.
Marden-Abbott House and Store Furnished house. World War II-era
home and family-run grocery store.
Built c. 1720.
Patch House Private. Built c. 1820.
Peacock House Private. 1-1/2 story urban dwelling. Built c. 1821,
expanded c. 1880 and c. 1940.
Penhallow House Restrooms. 18
th
-century home of Deacon Samuel
Penhallow, moved from Pleasant Street in 1862.
Built c. 1750.
Penhallow Garage Private. Built c. 1920.
(formerly a tidal inlet that rose and fell by 14 feet)
