Rice Public Library, Kittery

Name: Rice Public Library
Address: 9 Wentworth St, Kittery, 03904, United States

#4 among attractions in Kittery

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The Rice Public Library is the public library of Kittery, Maine. It is located at 8 Wentworth Street in the central Kittery Foreside village, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival building built in 1889 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with a large annex just across the street at 2 Walker Street. ()

Built: 1889 (135 years ago)Coordinates: 43°5'12"N, 70°44'33"W

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9 Wentworth StKittery 03904 United States

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Rice Public Library – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Point of Graves Burial Ground, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth Athenæum, Wentworth-Gardner House.

0.9 miSW
Cemetery
Point of Graves Burial Ground, Portsmouth
23 min walk • Point of Graves Burial Ground is a small historic cemetery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dating to the 17th century. It was the final resting place for many of Portsmouth's prominent residents including the Wentworth family, the Vaughan family, the Rogers, and the Lears.
0.9 miSW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth
24 min walk • Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth.
1 miSW
Museum, Library, Art museum
Portsmouth Athenæum, Portsmouth
26 min walk • The Portsmouth Athenæum is an independent membership library, gallery, and museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States.
0.9 miSW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth
24 min walk • The Wentworth Lear Historic Houses are a pair of adjacent historic houses on the south waterfront in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Both buildings and an 18th-century warehouse are owned by the Wentworth Lear Historic Houses and are operated as a house museum. They are located at the corner of Mechanic and Gardner Streets.
1 miSW
Church
North Church, Portsmouth
27 min walk • The North Church of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, is a historic Congregational church located in Market Square. Sited directly across from the Portsmouth Athenæum, it features an Italianate edifice and a steeple visible from most of the city, the Piscataqua River, and communities on its western bank in Maine.
0.8 miSW
Park, Garden, Theater
Prescott Park, Portsmouth
21 min walk • Prescott Park is a ten-plus acre waterfront park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The land was purchased in the 1930s by two sisters, Josie and Sarah Prescott.
1.2 miSW
Music and shows, Nightlife, Theater
The Music Hall, Portsmouth
30 min walk • The Music Hall is an 895-seat theater located at 28 Chestnut Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the United States. Built in 1878, The Music Hall claims to be the oldest operating theater in New Hampshire and the 14th oldest in the United States.
0.9 miSW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
MacPheadris–Warner House, Portsmouth
23 min walk • The Warner House, formerly known as the MacPheadris–Warner House, is a historic house museum at 150 Daniel Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. Built 1716–1718, it is the oldest, urban brick house in northern New England, and is one of the finest early-Georgian brick houses in New England.
0.9 miSW
Church
St. John's Church, Portsmouth
23 min walk • St. John's Church is a historic church at 101 Chapel Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The brick building was designed by Alexander Parris and built in 1807; it was the first brick church in the state of New Hampshire, and is a rare surviving early design by Parris.
0.9 miSW
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Players' Ring, Portsmouth
22 min walk • The Players' Ring Theatre is a theater located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The black box theater has a seating capacity of 75.
0.7 miSW
Bridge
Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth
19 min walk • The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine, United States.

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Nearby attractions include Mark F. and Eliza J. Wentworth House, Kittery (1 min walk), Robert and Louisa Traip House, Kittery (1 min walk), Samuel Badger Monument, Kittery (4 min walk), John Paul Jones Memorial Park, Kittery (11 min walk).

Rice Public Library, Kittery

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Rice Public Library – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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