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Centennial Open House June 5  Join us Saturday, June 5, for a special centennial event: All thirty-six Historic New England properties are open to the public for free. The Centennial Open House is your opportunity to introduce friends and family to your favorite historic home, or to visit a property that's new to you.
From the 1664 Jackson House, a classic example of early New England architecture and the oldest surviving house in New Hampshire and Maine, to the 1938 Gropius House, home to Walter Gropius, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century, Hi storic New England has hundreds of years of history to share with visitors. From Wiscasset, Maine, to Jamestown, Rhode Island, to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, learn about the people who lived in stone-enders, urban mansions, rural estates, and working farms.
Members, make sure to bring your new Historic New England Passport - this is a great day to start getting those pages stamped.
Use our new online property map to help plan your trip.
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Discover the new HistoricNewEngland.org
At the new HistoricNewEngland.org, you'll find it much faster and easier to plan a summer tour of historic sites, research our collections, find out about the latest members' events, or learn tips for taking care of your older home. The newly launched site includes photographic tours of each of our thirty-six properties, a new online collections database, and an expanded events calendar. At the online shop, purchase books and gifts, register for events, renew your membership, and make a donation, all in one transaction. Stay on top of the latest news in our What's New section, and tell us what you think by leaving comments. |
Preservation Maintenance Fund at work
at the Codman Estate
Visit the Codman Estate this month to see Historic New England's landscape preservation work in action. At Codman, whose Italian garden is shown above, work is underway to restore the ha-ha wall, a sunken trench designed to enclose animals without obstructing the garden view. Acting as invisible fences, ha-ha walls are a popular feature of eighteenth-century English country estates and, famously, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate.
Historic New England preservation staff are at Codman June 5 to share their expertise and discuss this and other Preservation Maintenance Fund projects.
Learn more about preservation at Historic New England.
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for military
As part of the Blue Star Museums Initiative, Historic New England invites active duty military personnel and their families to visit our properties for free from Memorial Day to Labor Day 2010. Learn more.
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Columns return to Langdon House
After nearly a year's absence for preservation work, four fluted columns with Corinthian capitals have been returned to the Governor John Langdon House. The columns, part of the original portico construction of the 1784 Georgian mansion, have been attributed to joiner Ebenezer Dearing, a well known Portsmouth housewright. Read more at Seacoast Online.
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| Historic New England Web 2.0
Podcasts for behind-the-scenes glimpses at Historic New England. |
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