News from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
November 8, 2005
Phone: (603) 271-3211
Email: info@wildlife.state.nh.us
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CONTACT:
Peter Wellenberger, (603) 868-1095 
November 8, 2005


YOURS IF YOU MOVE IT: HISTORIC GREENLAND CABIN AVAILABLE

DURHAM, N.H. -- The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is offering 
an historic cabin free to an individual or group willing to move it to 
a new location and agree to maintain its historic nature. The cabin, 
deemed eligible for the National Historic Register, is available to be 
relocated from the southern shore of Great Bay in Greenland under the 
guidance of the New Hampshire Division of Historic Resources and Great Bay 
National Estuarine Research Reserve. 

The cabin has a white clapboard exterior and 2 x 4 framed construction 
throughout. The structure is 28 feet long and 15 feet, 7 inches wide, 
with an added kitchen area off the back measuring 12 feet by 6 feet, 8 
inches. The foundation is of cedar posts, with the corners on concrete 
blocks and interior posts set directly into the ground. The roof has 
asphalt shingles, and there is an exterior chimney on the east side of the 
building. 

The New Hampshire Division of Historic Resources pinpoints the 
significance of the cabin as being its strong association with a local 
individual prominent in Seacoast society. The cabin, known as Paul's Cottage, 
was built just before 1940 by Orman Paul (1894-1974), who was the owner 
and proprietor of Paul's Market on Daniels Street in Portsmouth from 
1921 until the early 1970s. Paul was also a vice president and trustee of 
the Portsmouth Savings Bank and a past president of the Portsmouth 
Country Club.

The cabin also reflects the mid-20th century period when area farmers 
were looking for ways to use their land for commercial purposes. Paul's 
Cottage was one of many vacation cabins located on Brackett's and 
Weeks' Points and was originally built and leased as a sportsman's cabin for 
use as a base for hunting and fishing. 

For more information on obtaining this historic structure, please call 
Peter Wellenberger, Manager of Great Bay National Estuarine Research 
Reserve, at (603) 868-1095.

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