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Upcoming Events

- 9/22/2018
  Great Road Open House
  Arnold House
  Rhode Island
  9/22/2018
  Leading Locally: Design Review for Preservation Planning
  Hotel Coolidge
  Vermont
  9/22/2018
  Coastal Farming Walking Tour, September 22
  Cogswell's Grant
  Massachusetts
- 9/22/2018, 9/29/2018
  Coastal Growers’ Market
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
  9/22/2018
  Watercolor Workshop, September 22
  Watson Farm
  Rhode Island
  9/22/2018
  Fourteenth Annual Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, September 22
  Langdon House
  New Hampshire
- 9/23/2018
  Fourteenth Annual Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, September 23
  Langdon House
  New Hampshire
  9/23/2018
  Coolidge Point Landscape Tour
  Coolidge Point
  Massachusetts
  9/24/18, 10/1/18, 10/15/18, 10/22/18
  Farm Friends II
  Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
  Massachusetts
- 9/25/2018
  Homeschool Program, At the Bay
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
  9/26/2018
  Weeding Wednesdays, September 26
  Cogswell's Grant
  Massachusetts
  9/26/2018
  The Federal-Style Landscape of Rundlet-May
  Rundlet-May House
  New Hampshire

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Compass Rose Steampunk Festival
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10th Annual Art at Marrett
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36th Annual Roseland Cottage Fine Arts and Crafts Festival
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Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
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Eustis Estate Museum
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Gropius House
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Casey Farm
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Featured News

Sep 21 2018

Volunteers do hands-on work with Cogswell’s Grant collections

Sep 21, 2018

The Volunteer Collection Care Corps is a new opportunity that Historic New England is piloting this fall at Cogswell’s Grant in Essex, Massachusetts. Led...

Sep 20 2018

Historic New England acquires Getrude Fiske portrait

Sep 20, 2018

Man Whittling added to the collection Historic New England recently acquired Man Whittling, c. 1935, by Boston Museum School artist and National Academy of...

Sep 13 2018

“Rooted” to screen at Vermont film festival

Sep 13, 2018

Historic New England’s film Rooted: Cultivating Community in the Vermont Grange has been selected as an entry in the Vermont International Film Festival’s (VTIFF)...

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