"Glen Manor" | interesting place

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A large, 2-story, French Chateau Style structure, with stuccoed walls and tall brick chimneys, at the end of Glen Road. It was once part of the Henry A. C. Taylor estate. Architect John Russell Pope designed the Manor House along the lines of Petit Trianon for Henry Taylor’s son, Moses, in 1923.

Moses Taylor’s widow married G. J. Guthrie Nicholson in 1938; later, their son sold the chateau and forty-three acres to Elmhurst, a Catholic girls preparatory school, which came to Portsmouth in 1960 after 89 years in Providence. Soon after, new buildings, including a chapel, convent, dining hall and classrooms were erected. In 1972, the private school closed and the Town of Portsmouth established an elementary school next to Glen Manor, (now also closed, school addition due to be demolished).

At the end of Glen Road is a Gatehouse, a 11⁄2-story stuccoed structure with a tall, brick chimney, built in the same style as the manor house. (1885-Land of H. A. C. Taylor.)

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