
Portsmouth, N.H.'s big architectural museum
The entrance to the Strawberry Banke historic district. Yes, they have summer there.
Strawberry Banke, a neighborhood in Portsmouth, N.H. , and settled in 1630, is lovely and fascinating because of the thirty-seven historic houses, some dating to the 17th Century, and protected there by historic district regulations. And the wider Portsmouth is a hip, highly entrepreneurial, techie and increasingly arty small city/port. Strawberry Banke got its name from the many berry bushes found there by English settlers.