PORTSMOUTH A developer is seeking variances needed to build four two-family structures on land behind an existing 1892 home on Middle Street.
Attorney R. Timothy Phoenix filed the application for the variances on behalf of the applicant, the Tuck Realty Corp., seeking the variances, according to documents filed with the city.
The property is currently owned by The Elizabeth Larson Trust of 2012 and is assessed at $2.2 million, according to city records.
In addition to the 1892 home at the front of the property, there is also a 1900 carriage house behind it, according to city records.
New housing would access Chevrolet Avenue
Tuck Realty is seeking to subdivide the property lot, which is about 81,000 square feet, and “is significantly larger than most others in the nearby area,” Phoenix said.
After Portsmouth native Doris Moore returned home in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in hand, she wanted to do something to help her country. America was embroiled in the Second World War at the time, a literal battle between good and evil.
Moore was a woman, and she was Black. Her opportunity to make a significant contribution to the war effort was limited not only by her gender but by her race. This opportunity ultimately arrived with the formation of the 6888th Central Postal Delivery Battalion, an all-Black detachment of the Women’s Army Corps.
In order to achieve success on the battlefield, America’s fighting men needed more than proper training and equipment; more than an effective military strategy to guide them. They had to be reminded at times just why they were fighting so far from home.
Active Retirement Association to present A Take of Two Pandemics
Portsmouth Herald
Explore how politics, culture, medicine and foreign affairs impacted the severity of the Spanish Flu of 1918 and COVID-19, and how these diseases changed our world - and how COVID still does.
It’s all part of an online series by the Active Retirement Association (ARA) beginning Feb. 17 in a 10 a.m. Zoom session. Dr. Marion Dorsey will discuss why the Spanish Flu of 1918 was so deadly and the tensions, then and now, between governmental authority, public health and individual liberty. Dr. Dorsey, an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will also explain how World War I enhanced the Spanish Flu’s devastating effects.
PORTSMOUTH Anticipating the springtime signing-on of prospective tenants, Strawbery Banke Museum is renovating two houses on its historic campus for residential use as part of the Heritage House Program.
The Banke’s Patch House and Webster House are joining 11 other houses holding tenants, which has become a major income driver for Strawbery Banke since COVID-19 has limited operations.
The difference between the current state of the two houses is night and day, said Rodney Rowland, the museum s director of facilities and special projects.
“Webster is in fantastic condition and easy to convert,” he said. “Patch House is in really bad condition and takes longer to convert.”
A Blackburn lawyer barred from practising as a solicitor more than 20 years ago has been reinstated following a tribunal. Bushra Anwar, of Beardwood Park, was the first Asian female solicitor to run her own practice in the region. She set up her firm on Strawberry Bank in the early nineties and her thriving practice was set to expand. Speaking of the decision to reinstate her on the solicitors roll, Ms Anwar said she was ‘happy to have received ‘justice’ more than 20 years since she was last able to practise as a solicitor. Ms Anwar was struck off by the Law Society in May 1999, after admitting a number of counts of serious misconduct.