Richard Jackson House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Richard Jackson House
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
location= 76 Northwest Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
lat_degrees = 43
lat_minutes = 4
lat_seconds = 51.28
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 70
long_minutes = 45
long_seconds = 59.35
long_direction = W
locmapin = New Hampshire
area = approximately convert|1|acre|m2|sing=on
built =1664
architect= Richard Jackson
architecture= Colonial, Other
designated= November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=766&ResourceType=Building
title=Richard Jackson House |accessdate=2007-10-17|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=68000009

The Richard Jackson House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, is the oldest surviving wood frame house in New Hampshire or Maine. This National Historic Landmark was built in 1664 by Richard Jackson, a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, on his family's 25 acre plot. Jackson's house resembles English post-medieval prototypes, but is notably American in its extravagant use of wood. Succeeding generations added a lean-to and more rooms to the east to accommodate several different family groups sharing the property at once.

The founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), William Sumner Appleton, acquired the house for SPNEA, now known as Historic New England, in 1924 from a member of the seventh generation of Jacksons to live there.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/68000009.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Richard Jackson House] |245 KB|date=March 11, 1975 |author=James Dillon |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/68000009.pdf "Accompanying 5 photos, exterior, from 1967"] |3.24 MB]

It is located at 76 Northwest Street in Portsmouth, on an inlet of the Piscataqua River. Another SPNEA house, the George Rogers House, is adjacent, just convert|80|ft|m away.

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External links

* [http://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/jackson.htm Historic New England: Jackson House]