Langley Boardman (1774-1833) was an important builder and real estate developer who built his own home, this stately Federal style residence, at 152 Middle Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Langley Boardman later served as a Constitutional Councilor and as a State Senator, living here until his death in 1833. His son, Dr. John Howe Boardman, owned the home until his own death in 1882. The Boardman House is a high-style Federal style residence with a three-story, five-by-three-bay, rectangular, form. The building has a hipped roof and four tall brick chimneys, with flushboard siding at the facade. The facade has a double wood-paneled entrance door with fanlight and rectangular sidelights under an elliptical flat-roof porch with overhanging eaves and denticulated cornice supported by columns with scrolled capitals. At the facade second story, directly above the entrance, is a Palladian window with columns with scrolled capitals slightly recessed in an elliptical surround.
Buildings of New England 