John Paul Jones House

The John Paul Jones House is a historic house at 43 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Now a historic house museum and a National Historic Landmark, it is where American Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, resided from 1781 to 1782 when it was operated as a boarding house.

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Type: Museum
Description: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, NRHP-listed
Address: 43 Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Music Hall and Rockingham Hotel.

The Music Hall

Theater building

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The Music Hall is an 895-seat theater located at 28 Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the United States. Built in 1878, The Music Hall claims to be the oldest operating theater in New Hampshire and the 14th-oldest in the United States.

Rockingham Hotel

Building

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The Rockingham Hotel is a historic former hotel and contemporary condominium at 401 State Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1885, it is a prominent early example of Colonial Revival architecture, built in part in homage to Woodbury Langdon, whose 1785 home occupied the site.

Portsmouth African Burying Ground

Memorial

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The Portsmouth African Burying Ground is a memorial park on Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The memorial park sits on top of an 18th-century gravesite containing almost two hundred freed and enslaved African people. Portsmouth African Burying Ground is situated 420 feet east of John Paul Jones House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portsmouth and Kittery.

Portsmouth

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Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. It had a population of 21,956 at the 2020 census. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination on the Piscataqua River bordering the state of Maine, Portsmouth was formerly the home of the Pease Air Force Base, since converted to Portsmouth International Airport at Pease.

Kittery

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Kittery is a small town in Maine, directly across from the New Hampshire border, that features a number of outlet stores.

Atlantic Heights Development

Neighborhood

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The Atlantic Heights Development is a historic company-built worker subdivision in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bounded by I-95, the Piscataqua River, and the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad, this small neighborhood was built in 1918–1920 to meet…

John Paul Jones House

Categories: house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: City of Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.07526° or 43° 4′ 31″ north

Longitude

-70.76029° or 70° 45′ 37″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Inception

1758

Open location code

87MF36GQ+4V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 722380507

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

5088164

Wikidata ID

Q6252231

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