This beautiful and storied brick mansion on State Street in Portsmouth, NH currently houses residential condos and the tasty and unique Library Restaurant. You can read more about its history at the restaurant’s website here. I won’t try to rehash all of it, but I always enjoy re-reading the story. I will come back another time during sunset when the light isn’t so harsh, but in the meantime, I was feeling that the building should get some recognition here on the site.
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July 20, 2009 at 8:46 am
Back during the Campaign of JF Kennedy in 59/60′s my father Joseph Churchwell was the maintenance man at the Rockingham where JFK stayed and after a press interview John F. Kennedy signed his name in black pen across the table. The manager of the Rockingham at the time, not a Kennedy fan, asked my father to “clean that off”
July 20, 2009 at 11:11 am
Thomas – thank you for visiting the site and sharing such a wonderful piece of American history! It’s great to hear some of the behind the scenes history of Portsmouth and one of its true institutions. I’ll bet that table would have fetched a pretty penny!
December 22, 2009 at 12:02 am
[...] Street, which I’ve written more about along with a sunset shot that can be viewed here: THE ROCKINGHAM | STATE STREET Do yourself a favor and click the image to get a taste of the photo at full [...]