154 Market St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire. County/parish: Rockingham.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 24, 1968. NRIS 68000010.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Moffatt-Ladd House, also known as the William Whipple House, is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The 1763 Georgian house was the home of William Whipple (1730–1785), a Founding Father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War general. The house is now owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames in New Hampshire, and is open to the public.
Among the contents are Whipple's sword and other personal items, along with a portrait of him. Outside is a horse chestnut tree that Whipple planted in 1776 with seeds that he brought back from Philadelphia. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77844590