Strawbery Banke sits on a roughly 10-acre site in Portsmouth's South End, first settled in 1630 and preserved today as New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood settled by Europeans. The historic district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 20, 1975. General admission is $25 at the gate or $23 purchased online in advance, valid for two consecutive days. Self-guided visits run Wednesday-Monday, 10am-4pm (June 17-November 1), with Tuesday guided tours by reservation at set times.
General admission stays valid for two consecutive days, worth spreading a visit across two half-days rather than trying to see every building in one long session, particularly given the site's actual scale.
Strawbery Banke's founding predates the vast majority of preserved colonial-era sites in the United States, worth understanding as genuinely early European settlement history, not a later colonial-period site.
Guided tours are offered specifically at 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm on Tuesdays only, so plan a Tuesday visit around one of those five exact departure times if a guided experience matters more than self-paced exploration.
The $2 per-ticket savings for booking online in advance is a genuine discount already built into the online price, worth buying ahead rather than assuming gate pricing and online pricing are the same.
Strawbery Banke sits in Portsmouth's South End, walkable from downtown, with Portsmouth reachable via I-95 roughly an hour north of Boston.
Strawbery Banke rewards understanding its near-400-year timespan and choosing between a flexible self-guided visit or one of five fixed Tuesday tour times. The site's full history and buildings are covered in full below.
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