by JHS | Sep 19, 2019 | Events
The 2019 Members Only preview party was held at the magnificient 1910 Pink House graciously donated by Lisa and Jack LaFort. The party was a great send off for the yearly Historic House Tour which JHS has every year and was highlighted by an incredible glowing... 
by JHS | Aug 25, 2019 | Events
The three houses on this year’s tour illustrate three different approaches to making old houses livable in the 21st century. It will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2019 – 10am to 2pm. The homes are Preserve. The almost unchanged Greene farmhouse at 55... 
by JHS | Aug 21, 2019 | Events, Library Exhibits
New Library Exhibit: August, 2019 The new exhibit in the library show unusual envelopes in the JHS collection, ranging from late 19th century bills from Jamestown’s summer hotels that used drawings of the hotel as return addresses to fancy cancels in honor of... 
by JHS | Aug 21, 2019 | Events
Don Powers, owner and designer of the recently renovated Zero Energy House on PBS’s This Old House was the guest speaker at the Jamestown Historical Society annual meeting on Tuesday, August 20 which was held at the Jamestown Library. ... 
by JHS | Jul 29, 2019 | Events
[ At a talk at the Jamestown Library on July 24, Sue Maden and Rosemary Enright spoke about their new book The 1874 Diary of Providence Reform School Inmate No. 2067: Dr. William Lincoln Bates of Jamestown, RI which was published by the historical society. The... 
by JHS | Jul 8, 2019 | Library Exhibits
New Library Exhibit: June, 2019 The Jamestown Historical Society, working with the Newport Pell Bridge 50 th anniversary committee, has mounted two exhibits in the Jamestown Philomenian Library to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the Newport-Pell Bridge. The... 
by JHS | Jun 24, 2019 | Events
Co-curators of the Jamestown Historical Society summer exhibit, Sue Maden and Rosemary Enright (center), were joined by two of Dr. Bates’ descendants, Keith Kriet (left) and Barbara Magruder (right) for the opening of the exhibit about their ancestor. 2019 summer... 
by JHS | May 15, 2019 | Events
The latest Members Only Tour of Prescott Farm on May 15, 2019 was Fantastic. Prescott Farm is a 40 acre 18th century farm preserved by The Newport Restoration Foundation established by Doris Duke. British General Richard Prescott was occupying the farm in July 1777,... 
by JHS | Apr 7, 2019 | Events
The Members Only Tour of the exhibit John James Audubon: Obsession Untamed, at Rosecliff on April 4, 2019 was exceptional. The exhibition draws upon the Preservation Society’s collections as well as significant loans from private collections and institutions.... 
by JHS | Mar 22, 2019 | Events
Courtesy of Rhode Island Council of the Humanities and D.K. Abbasss, Ph.D photo courtesy of the JHS, click here for the entire Rhode Tour story Rhode Island’s Revolutionary War history may not share the luster of nearby Massachusetts’, but the smallest colony was the...