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Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion : ウィキペディア英語版
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion is a 40-room clapboard house which was built as the home, offices and working farm of colonial Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. It is located on the water at 375 Little Harbor Road, about two miles southeast of the center of Portsmouth. It is one of the few royal governors' residences to survive almost unchanged. The site is a New Hampshire state park, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.〔〔 and 〕 Today, the New Hampshire Bureau of Historic Sites manages the site with the assistance of the Wentworth-Coolidge Commission, a group of volunteer civic and business leaders appointed by the Governor.〔http://wentworthcoolidge.org/?page_id=38〕
==History of the house==
In 1741, the governorship of the province of New Hampshire was separated from that of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and Benning Wentworth, son of former Lieutenant-governor John Wentworth, was appointed its royal governor. He requested that the General Court erect a capitol in Portsmouth, but was refused. In 1750, Wentworth built his estate to include both a working farm and council chamber.〔(British Governors Wentworth – Brewster's Rambles About Portsmouth #17 )〕 The structure was made from existing buildings moved to the site and cobbled together with new sections, giving the house its eclectic appearance. From here Wentworth signed charters creating new towns across New Hampshire and Vermont.〔(New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation – Benning Wentworth )〕
The Cushing family acquired the property in 1816, and by the 1840s began showing the old mansion, one of America's first historic houses open to the public. Purchased with about in 1886, John Templeman Coolidge III and his wife restored the mansion with the assistance of Sumner Appleton, founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Coolidge was a Boston Brahmin, artist and antiquarian who used the property as a summer home. His guests included such luminaries as John Singer Sargent, Edmund C. Tarbell and Isabella Stewart Gardner.〔(New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation – Coolidge Center for the Arts )〕 Coolidge's widow, Mary Abigail Parsons Coolidge, donated the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion to the state in 1954.〔(New Hampshire Division of Parks & Recreation – John Templeman Coolidge III )〕

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