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Biennial Historical House Tour ~ Sunday, May 17th, 12:30-4:30 pm

Biennial Historical House Tour

<style=”text-align: center;”>Sunday, May 17th, 12:30-4:30 pm
The saying goes, “If walls could talk what stories they could tell.” Every other year, the Williamstown Historical Museum arranges for these stories to be told on the Historical House Tour. Tickets for this year’s tour are available until Saturday afternoon at the locations listed below. There is also link to the online form to buy tickets at the bottom of this page, and please thank the following businesses who have been graciously helping us to distribute tickets:

Where tickets will be sold:

  • The Library Antiques

 

  • Where’d You Get That?!

 

  • Milne Public Library Circulation Desk

 

  • Wild Oats

 

  • Williams Inn

 

 

Tickets are also available online here!

 

Please say “Thank You!” to our sponsor for this year’s Historic House Tour: r.k. MILES logo 5747 High Res

Here are some of the special houses on the tour:

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The 1753 House

in the Rotary

WHMIde Phillips

Ide/Phillips house (102 Ide Road)

WHMQuinn house center

Reverend Seth Swift House (630 Water Street)

Pine-cobble

Cluett Estate/Pine Cobble School (163 Gale Road)

Photo Preservation Workshop for Members and Friends at the WHM

Photo Preservation Workshop

with Collections Curator, Laura Staneff, MA

Saturday, May 9th,  11 am at the WHM

Laura can help tell us when this photo was taken and how we can best preserve it! Bring a photo to our workshop to learn what you can do to preserve your photos too!
Laura can help tell us when this photo was taken and how we can best preserve it!
Bring a photo to our workshop to learn what you can do to preserve your photos too!

Do you have a collection of old family photos that are fading fast?  What can you do to protect them?  Should you tape photos into your scrapbooks?  Our freelance collections curator, Laura Downey Staneff, will answer your questions.  In this workshop Laura will discuss different types of photographic processes, their mounts, and how they deteriorate as they age.  She’ll also discuss how photographs should be displayed and stored.  Did you know that displaying a high quality facsimile reproduction of your favorite family photo is a great way to preserve the original?  Workshop participants are invited to bring individual photographs and plenty of questions for discussion about how to preserve your precious photos.  Continue reading Photo Preservation Workshop for Members and Friends at the WHM

Pat Leach ~ 1765 Saturday, April 18th, 11:00 am, Milne Library

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Pat Leach ~ 1765

Saturday, April 18th, 11:00 am, Milne Library

1765 is the year the settlement of West Hoosac became Williamstown!  In 2015, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Williamstown’s incorporation. Although, in 1765 our town had yet to produce any major writers, painters, musicians, ballet dancers, or soccer stars, there is still a lot of history to talk about!  

Williamstown residents of 1765 may not have left us a literary or artistic legacy, but they did leaves us a valuable and informative Proprietors Book, which miraculously did not burn in the Meeting House Fire of 1866.  The Proprietor’s Book will be our point of departure for an illustrated fly-over of the year 1765 in Williamstown, Berkshire County, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as well as Boston, London, and Paris.