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Earlier this year, Steven Favreau of Favreau Design and HGTV’s Design Star joined Historic New England’s Ogden Codman Design Group and Design New England on a panel to present how he would reimagine spaces in the 1796 Harrison Gray Otis House. We recently caught up with Favreau to hear...
Historic New England’s collection services team is several weeks into the Collections Care Project, a move of approximately 20,000 objects within our facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Thus far our focus has been on inventorying and moving ceramic objects such as plates, pitchers, teacups, and jugs. Pictured here is a...
Historic New England’s Collections Care Project is in full swing as we continue to move shelves and shelves of ceramic dinner sets, children’s mugs, tea sets, and redware pottery. This week we rediscovered these interestingly shaped porcelain jugs. Both were produced in England in the 1880s by the Worcester...
Sixty-two applications were reviewed by a committee that included Robert Ogle, director of preservation at Boston Architectural College; John Peacock, executive director of Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerce; Claudia Wu, non-profit and strategic planning consultant; and Carl R. Nold, president and CEO of Historic New England. The 2014...
At Historic New England’s facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the collection services team is now one month into the Collections Care Project. We are more than a quarter of the way toward our goal of moving and documenting more than 20,000 objects so that facility improvements can take place, and...
As Historic New England’s collection services team continues to move more than 20,000 objects for the first phase of the Collections Care Project, the range of our artifact collection becomes clear. While taking inventory of ceramic tea sets and children’s mugs, we encountered this George Foreman Electric Grill, dating...
Historic New England’s Collections Care Project involves moving more than 20,000 objects out of storage so that new compact shelving and environmental controls can be installed. This week, our staff hit the halfway mark toward our goal. More than 10,000 objects, mostly ceramics, glass, and sculpture, have been inventoried...
On August 25, Historic New England Executive Vice President Diane Viera presented a 2014 Community Preservation Grant to the Greater New Haven Labor History Association. The $1,000 grant will be used to produce eight additional panels for Our Community at Winchester: An Elm City Story, an exhibition about the...
In addition to a growing costume jewelry collection, Historic New England preserves many examples of fine jewelry. This necklace, a family piece from Phillips House in Salem, Massachusetts, is a great example of luxurious Art Deco jewelry. The carved jade plaque hangs from a platinum and pavé-set diamond bail. ...
Historic New England’s Collections Care Project, involving a move of more than 20,000 objects within our storage facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts, recently reached a milestone: the approximate half-way point in the first phase of the project, with more than 10,000 objects moved. The majority of the objects moved thus...
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