This February we share some of the voices our researchers are recovering. Historic New England’s Recovering New England’s Voices scholars have already uncovered more than 580 previously unknown stories in the past two years and their work is ongoing. We share the following stories as we continue our commitment to telling a fuller more complex […]
This is one in a series of posts about stories being explored as part of Recovering New England’s Voices This 1897 photo from Historic New England’s collection shows David Chesnut who worked at the Eustis Estate in Milton, Mass. It was taken when he was in his early twenties while working with the Eustis family’s […]
A newly acquired collection from the Frank N. Nathan Company and the Church Company illustrates Boston’s thriving jewelry industry in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries From ancient times to today, jewelry has been worn as a mode of self-expression or to convey social status, to indicate religious beliefs or political views, or […]
Historic New England was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Americana Foundation to fund the work of Recovering New England’s Voices Scholar Erika Slocumb. During the first year of Recovering New England’s Voices four full-time scholars dedicated to researching historically marginalized peoples uncovered more than 580 previously unknown stories through extensive research at regional archives […]
Verner and Deborah Reed’s generous 2002 gift of 26,000 negatives greatly expanded Historic New England’s mid-twentieth-century photography collection. The portraits, landscapes, and images capturing special moments and current events document urban and rural life in New England from the 1950s to the ’80s. Reed’s magazine work Throughout the 1950s, Reed was the primary freelance photographer […]
Recovering New England’s Voices is the most comprehensive undertaking in Historic New England’s 113-year history to conduct meaningful and challenging research that tells the full New England story at our historic sites and programs. This multi-year initiative, launched in 2021, is an investment in our future and permeates everything we do. During the first year […]
New Hampshire’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program awards thirty-four grants to communities and non-profit organizations across the state. Historic New England receives a $25,000 grant for Langdon House from the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) Governor Sununu today announced $4.3 million in matching grants to support thirty-four land conservation and […]
Historic New England Preservation Manager Bruce Blanchard is being honored by the Portsmouth Advocates with the 2022 Arthur J. Gerrier Award. The Gerrier Award is bestowed in recognition of “a personal commitment to preserving and enhancing the unique historical character of Portsmouth.” The award announcement states that Blanchard’s work “preserving Portsmouth’s architectural heritage exemplifies this […]
Training new generations Mentorship is a vital aspect of leadership, particularly in the field of historic building trades – where training new generations is a keystone of the long-term preservation of New England’s built environment. Robert Adam has embodied the true meaning of “mentorship” throughout his career. His enthusiastic efforts to elevate and support traditional […]
Fishing Fleet is an oil painting of Narragansett Bay by the nineteenth-century Providence artist George Whitaker (1841-1916). About Whitaker Whitaker was a prominent Rhode Island landscape painter and a founding member of the Providence Art Club. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and orphaned at a young age. He eventually joined his uncles, engravers […]
Historic New England was awarded a $20,000 grant through the Expand Massachusetts Stories initiative from Mass Humanities to support Teaching the Full Dorchester Story. How the funds will be used This grant funds the hiring of a researcher dedicated to deepening the stories we share at Pierce House by uncovering information on marginalized people connected […]
Join Historic New England Team Leader Peter Gittleman and Site Manager Wendy Hubbard for a discussion about the use and reinterpretation of traditional New England design at Gropius House in Lincoln, Mass. Although established in the early twentieth century, the principles of the Bauhaus philosophy continue to be relevant today. When the Gropius House was […]
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