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This special tour is offered Saturday October 7, 1pm-2:30 pm, 3:30pm-5pm and 6pm-7:30pm. Island Cemetery is the final resting place of important and intriguing people, many from Newport’s Gilded Age. During this guided walking tour across the cemetery’s scenic grounds, meet Maude Wetmore and hear about her family and her home, Château Sur Mer. Some […]
October 12, 2023 at 6:30pm, doors open at 5:30pm Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street Admission tickets start at $15-$20 Book online now! Who was Newport pirate Paulsgrave […]
Join us for our 2023 Annual Meeting to learn more about what the NHS has accomplished this year, and to discuss our plans for the future! NHS will also be debuting the exhibit Charting History: Navigating the Currents of Rhode Island’s Past. Charting History is a traveling panel exhibition that tells one comprehensive, chronological and […]
Friday October 20-Saturday October 28, 10am to 2pm The Colony House Washington Square, Newport Charting History is a traveling panel exhibition that tells one cohesive, chronological, and thematic narrative of Rhode Island’s history. It follows the major threads of commerce, conflict, and conscience to tell the stories of RI and the people who have lived […]
Tuesday October 24, 2023 from 6pm – 7:30pm Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, RI Admission $15 - $20 per person Charter Books and the Newport Historical Society commemorate the 250th […]
Wednesday November 1, 2023 at 6:30pm; doors open at 5:30pm Apart from a handful of tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America—the first showman to win nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire […]
Please join us for the opening of NHS' fall exhibit Waves of Discovery: 18th and 19th Century Seafaring Science. Excellence in maritime navigation quickly became essential to the economic success […]