On the weekend before Thanksgiving, which happened to be Tom's birthday, we took a guided tour of Historic Strawberry Banke, which is a settlement from the 1600s in Portsmouth, New Hampshire! And a couple of pics from Thanksgiving Day in Massachusetts.
ABOUT THE TOUR - Join expert guides for a 90-minute tour exploring three centuries of Thanksgiving traditions in 4 historic houses .
Stavers even went to the extent of placing sand between the second-floor ceiling and third story floor so his guests in the second-floor bedrooms would not be disturbed by the noise coming from the third-floor meeting room. Stavers died in 1797, and his 2 daughters inherited it and later sold it.
SPECIAL MASONIC LODGE - During the late 1950s, a historic building preservation organization was launched to save as many of the city’s old “South End” historic homes as possible (including the Pitt Tavern). By 1964 this group had evolved into Strawbery Banke and the William Pitt Tavern Lodge No. 1789 was chartered on July 8, 1983 as a special lodge.
THE WILLIAM GOODWIN HISTORIC HOUSE - The William Goodwin house, now the Goodwin Mansion at the Strawbery Banke Museum, was built in 1811 for merchant Ichabod Goodwin and his family. Originally located elsewhere in Portsmouth, the house was moved to its current location in 1963 to save it from demolition.
Ichabod Goodwin, who was the governor of New Hampshire during the Civil War, and his wife Sarah managed the household and planted an elaborate garden.
(Photo: One of the streets in Strawberry Banke that shows the distance between the historic homes, and an overcast sky!)
WILLIAM PITT TAVERN (Saved by the Freemasons) - In 1766 a local merchant and member of St. John’s Lodge John Stavers built a new tavern called the Earl of Halifax Tavern and through the encouragement of his fellow Freemasons, included a room on the third floor large enough to accommodate the regular meetings of the Masonic Lodge. Three-story wooden structures were relatively rare in areas north of Boston, but even rarer was the placement of chimneys on both ends of the building rather than the central chimney and fireplaces so common to colonial New England construction.
Stavers even went to the extent of placing sand between the second-floor ceiling and third story floor so his guests in the second-floor bedrooms would not be disturbed by the noise coming from the third-floor meeting room. Stavers died in 1797, and his 2 daughters inherited it and later sold it. (Above Photo: Us standing outside the William Goodwin house in Portsmouth, NH, Below photo: Tom standing near the front door.)
SPECIAL MASONIC LODGE - During the late 1950s, a historic building preservation organization was launched to save as many of the city’s old “South End” historic homes as possible (including the Pitt Tavern). By 1964 this group had evolved into Strawbery Banke and the William Pitt Tavern Lodge No. 1789 was chartered on July 8, 1983 as a special lodge.
THE WILLIAM GOODWIN HISTORIC HOUSE - The William Goodwin house, now the Goodwin Mansion at the Strawbery Banke Museum, was built in 1811 for merchant Ichabod Goodwin and his family. Originally located elsewhere in Portsmouth, the house was moved to its current location in 1963 to save it from demolition. Ichabod Goodwin, who was the governor of New Hampshire during the Civil War, and his wife Sarah managed the household and planted an elaborate garden.(Photos: The kitchen and the front parlor of the Goodwin House. Credit: R.G.)
A CHILLY WALK - The historic Strawberry Banke area is a complex containing a lot of historic homes that were either in their original location or moved there from another part of Portsmouth, NH. Going from one house to another at the end of November was chilly, as it was only about 39 degrees Fahrenheit (much, much colder than normal), and there was a windchill in the low to mid 30s!!)
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