and Paul Waterman in 2023 - The Library Restaurant. This room is one of the most elaborately decorated in the building. The mahogany woodwork is finished in a colonial revival style with pilasters that suggest those in the original Langdon dining room. Both the room's frieze and the mahogany-framed mantelpiece at the east end are ornamented with carved arabesques and festoons in a neo-Adamesque style that evokes the Federal period heritage of the hotel and the city of Portsmouth. The celling of the dining room is divided into geometric panels by a network of mahogany mouldings, and these panels are alternately filled with Lincrusta-Walton linoleum and with trompe I'oeil frescoes painted by John Gannon of Manchester, New Hampshire. Gallery See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire References Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire Colonial Revival architecture in New Hampshire Hotel buildings completed in 1885 Buildings and structures in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Hotels in New Hampshire National Register of Historic Places in Portsmouth, New Hampshire