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Here's a question: if I were to share pictures of stuff in the house I'm a tour guide in would anybody be interested?
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Yes!!
Max
Ooh yeah!
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Okay! I'll do a little each week. 
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The building is the Warner House. Construction was finished in 1718.
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The only item that's been in the house since it was first inhabited is one of my favorite items.
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a mummified caribou head.
a mummified caribou head.
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It never moved from that spot, so they were able to see what the original paint was behind it.
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They used that to match a color to paint the rest of the entry hall.
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the view from the front door.
the view from the front door.
Max
Ahhhh
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That stairway was meant to be like a piece of furniture. It was a statement piece. It was also designed with taller steps to force people to walk up and down more slowly.
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That green color was one of the lowest colors they found under layers of paint.
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The virtual tour continues in the dining room.
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View from the door.
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I love that fireplace. Those tiles are all original to the house.
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A couple of the trinkets on top are souvenirs from the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Portsmouth.
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These portraits are all originals.
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The one of the girl (Polly Warner, 11 years old when it was painted) is apparently famous.
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The women (LtoR) are Mary MacPheadris and Sarah Wentworth. The guys are Nathaniel Warner, Nathaniel Sherburne, and Nathaniel Warner.
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The photos are dark because there are no electric lights in most of the house. The lighting is almost 100% sunlight through the windows.
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If you want to see close ups of anything let me know!
Max
This place is so cool! I love the portraits.
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The big ones were painted by Joseph Blackburn.
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I love that for like, hundreds of years people were apparently like "should we move that dead animal head? nah it's been there I guess we'll leave it there"
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Lol ikr
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It's right inside the doorway, too.
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So you walk through the door, look to the left and BAM mummified head.
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Supposedly it was a gift from Indians, though.
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They don't know for sure, though.
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oh this is so cool! I fucking love that wedgewood (ish?) serving platter in the middle of the main table
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the reenactor in me is swoon over that little girl's dress 
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The info book says it's from England and was made by Riley Pottery and may have been purchased from the shop of Adams & Cooper
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And here you go! 
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I love being able to literally walk into the other room and take these pictures. 
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these are the souvenirs from the Marquis de Lafayette's visit
these are the souvenirs from the Marquis de Lafayette's visit
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Also I can't believe that they put an 11 year old in fucking stays when she should have still been wearing jumps
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rich people
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Merchant class.
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well to do enough to have the portrait done in the first place lol
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which I'm sure is why they did it but still that's so unhealthy
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Yyyup
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The painter was also the best fabric painter around at the time... Until he taught someone else and that guy stole all his business.
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ffff ruthless
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Yeah Blackburn up and went back to London after that.
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LOL wow