Samuel Tenney House
Samuel Tenney House | |
42°58′49″N 70°56′23″W / 42.98028°N 70.93972°W / 42.98028; -70.93972 | |
Architect | Ebenezer Clifford with Bradbury Johnson |
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NRHP reference No. | 80000306 |
Added to NRHP | November 25, 1980 |
The Samuel Tenney House is an historic house at 65 High Street in Exeter, New Hampshire. This mansion was built circa 1800 as the primary residence of Samuel Tenney, a noted scholar, scientist, physician, American Revolutionary War surgeon, patriot, judge, and member of Congress, and his wife Tabitha Gilman Tenney, the noted early American author.
The master carpenter for the house was Ebenezer Clifford working with Bradbury Johnson. At the time, Clifford lived in the Gilman Garrison House, now owned by Historic New England. They also built the First Church, Exeter; the second Phillips Exeter Academy main building; and the Atkinson Academy building.[1]
Mrs. Tenney died in 1837, and the house was later occupied by Tristram Shaw, who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New Hampshire from 1830 until his death in 1843.[2] In January 1892, Dr. George W. Dearborn purchased the Samuel Tenney House from Frank H. Hervey.[3]
Today the house is located at 65 High Street, having been relocated there in 1893 from its original location in the center of Exeter, next to and north of the First Church on Front Street, to accommodate construction of the Rockingham County Courthouse. On November 25, 1980, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
References
- ^ New Hampshire Architecture: an illustrated guide. Bryant Franklin Tolles, Carolyn K. Tolles, New Hampshire Historical Society. Page 53. UPNE, 1979. accessed 2010.07.06
- ^ Tristram Shaw. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed 2010.07.06
- ^ Tenney Family. By Martha Jane Tenney, Jonathan Tenney. Page 87. Rumford Press, 1904. accessed 2010.07.06
Sources
- Postcards from Exeter by Carol Walker Aten. Arcadia Publishing, 2003. Tenney House, Page 90.
- New Hampshire Architecture: an illustrated guide by Bryant Franklin Tolles, Carolyn K. Tolles. New Hampshire Historical Society. UPNE, 1979. Dr. Samuel Tenney House, Page 53.
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- Atlantic Heights Development
- Deerfield Center Historic District
- East Derry Historic District
- Exeter Waterfront Commercial Historic District
- Front Street Historic District
- Highland Road Historic District
- Isles of Shoals‡
- Jewell Town District
- Little Boar's Head Historic District
- Newington Center Historic District
- Newmarket Industrial and Commercial Historic District
- Old Deerfield Center Historic District
- Portsmouth Downtown Historic District
- Portsmouth Parade Historic District
- Richman Margeson Estate
- Salem Common Historic District
- Scammon Farm Historic District
- Smith's Corner Historic District
- Strawbery Banke Historic District
- Town Center Historic District
- Wentworth-Gardner and Tobias Lear Houses
- Woodman Road Historic District
- Fort Constitution
- Old North Cemetery
- Plains Cemetery
† This entry has been removed from the registry.