Built 1811 (1811) Opened 1811 Added to NRHP 11 May 1973 | NRHP Reference # 73000168 Area 1,200 m² | |
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Location 30 Middle St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire Similar Water Country, Strawbery Banke, The Music Hall, USS Albacore (AGSS‑569), South Meetinghouse | ||
The Benedict House is a historic house at 30 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The three story brick house was built sometime between 1810 and 1813 for Thomas Morton, a local merchant. The brick is laid in Flemish bond throughout, and its workmanship is of exceptionally high quality when compared to that of other period buildings in the city, and may have been an early work of locally noted builder Jonathan Folsom. Its construction just outside central Portsmouth also apparently kicked off a minor building boom of fashionable houses in the immediate area. The house was joined in 1954 to the adjacent Portsmouth Academy building when it housed the city's public library; this complex is now home to Discover Portsmouth, a local tourism promotion organization.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.