Celebrate orchid-blooming season at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses, 85 Lyman Street in Waltham, October 3 – 5 from 9:30 – 4. Hundreds of orchid plants are for sale, including many hard-to-find varieties. Visit the greenhouse and enjoy gorgeous floral colors, shapes, and scents. Varieties on display and for sale include Cattleyas, Laelias, Oncidiums, Paphiopedilums, Phalaenopsis, and many more. Their long-lasting blooms are a dramatic addition to any indoor environment. This adaptable species can grow in a variety of home conditions. Staff are available to offer expert advice.
Historic New England members receive a 10% discount.
Join Historic New England at the Sarah Orne Jewett House, 5 Portland Street in South Berwick, Maine on Joly 10 from 5 – 7 for an opening reception of our new exhibition!
In partnership with the Dover Arts Commission, this summer’s gallery exhibition at the Sarah Orne Jewett House is A Seacoast Garden. This exhibition is inspired by the new collections going on displayed at Hamilton House. This new display examines Elise Tyson’s early 20th century photography of the Hamilton House Gardens and her floral arrangements. Tyson found inspiration for her photography and art in her garden and others along the seacoasts of Maine and New Hampshire. Elise was inspired by the beauty and uniqueness she found in these gardens. A Seacoast Garden weaves together the works of local artists that are interpretations or are inspired by the local seacoast gardens of today with Elise Tyson’s garden photographs. Together, this exhibition examens the unique beauty of seacoast gardens and the purposes they serve today and in the past.
Free. Please call (207) 384-2454 for more information.
On June 26 at 4 pm, Historic New England will host a program at Hollister House Garden addressing Garden Legacies and Historic Preservation. The event will consist of a conversation between renowned landscape architect Thomas Woltz and Vin Cipolla, president and CEO of Historic New England. George Schoellkopf, creator of Hollister House Garden, will introduce the evening.
Woltz and his firm, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, work on such sensitive and complex projects as Monticello’s Stewardship Master Plan, Olana Strategic Landscape Design, Aga Khan Garden, and Houston’s Memorial Park Master Plan. Drawing on their own significant bodies of work, Cipolla and Woltz will explore how the ecological and cultural histories of landscapes and gardens are uncovered and integrated into meaningful public experiences.
Light refreshments will be served and following the program all attendees are invited to enjoy the garden.
The Land is Full, a celebration of parks and public gardens by renowned landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz will be available for sale.
The program is free and open to the public. Advance reservation is requested. Reserve HERE. This conversation is part of a series sponsored by Historic New England Trustee Edward F.Gerber to address issues relevant to preservation on Connecticut. Historic New England’s 38 history museums, farms and landscapes include Roseland Cottage, the Codman Estate, Hamilton House and Beauport which continue to be meaningfully reinterpreted for the public..
Visit Historic New England’s celebrated collection of camellias in the 1804 camellia house at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses, 85 Lyman Street in Waltham. Treat yourself to a mini-vacation and soak up the atmosphere and colors of the tropics, along with some history. Enjoy the 100-year-old camellias in full bloom at one of the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States. Historic New England members save 10% on purchases. Tickets are not required to see the camellias in bloom.
Come to the Lyman Estate Greenhouses, 185 Lyman Street in Waltham on January 18 from 9:30 to 4 for a great retail experience. This new exotic houseplant sale features begonias and gesneriads. This diverse group of flowering plants includes lipstick plants (Aeschynanthus), goldfish plants (Nemantanthus), flame violets (Episcia), along with Columnea, Streptocarpus, Sinningia, and Kohleria. Our fantastic selection of begonias can give you fall color all winter long. Many other plant varieties will be for sale including orchids, succulents and cacti, citrus, ferns, and terrarium plants.
Historic New England’s Garden and Landscape members receive a 10% discount on purchases and individual and household members receive a 10% discount. Please call 617-994-5913 for more information. Online information: www.historicnewengland.org
Join Historic New England on January 6 at 6 pm Eastern on Zoom for a conversation with Lynn Ackerman, greenhouse manager at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses in Waltham, Massachusetts. Lynn will present a virtual talk sharing the best growing strategies for house plants and tips on how to keep your plants healthy. You will learn the proper cultural conditions needed to have success growing your houseplants and which ones to choose for growing conditions in your home. Be ready to ask questions about your own house plant to get a personalized answer during the question and answer segment.
Enjoy a magical evening of music and holiday cheer on December 19 at the Eustis Estate, 1424 Canton Avenue in Milton. Explore the 1878 mansion, which has been lavishly decorated for Christmas, while live holiday music fills the halls.
Members of Historic New England $20; Students $15; Nonmember $35. Log in or Join now to have your discount applied at checkout.
Advance tickets are required. Refreshments, wine, beer, and cider are included with your ticket. Please call 617-994-6600 for more information.
Members, join Historic New England this holiday season on December 13 for a very special evening at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm. Enjoy holiday refreshments, listen to Irish folk group Killeeshil perform traditional Christmas music, and tour the first floor of the Manor House. Learn about how Christmas was celebrated and evolved throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Hors d’oeuvre and refreshments included.
Members $40. This event is only for members of Historic New England. Log in or join now and then refresh this page to register for this special program. Please call 978-462-2634 for more information. The Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm is located at 5 Little’s Lane in Newbury, Massachusetts.
Historic New England is delighted to announce Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. as the recipient of our second Preservation Leadership Award for his lifelong dedication to promoting and protecting Maine’s history and architecture.
A native of Portland, Maine, Shettleworth attended Deering High School, Colby College, and Boston University. He has received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College, Colby College, and the Maine College of Art. His storied career includes a forty-year tenure as director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, from which he retired in 2015, and six terms (and counting) as Maine’s State Historian. Shettleworth’s visionary leadership stands as an inspiration not only to Mainers, but to all New Englanders who share his passion for and commitment to preserving the built environment, cultural landscapes, and our region’s history.
Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. will accept the Preservation Leadership Award at the 2024 Historic New England Summit in Portland, Maine. The Summit will take place November 14 and 15 at The Westin Portland Harborview in Portland, Maine, and will be livestreamed. There is a stellar list of presenters over two days, from Maurice Cox of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, to Jim Schachter, President and CEO of New Hampshire Public Radio, to composer Tod Machover of MIT Media Lab – there are too many to list here. For the complete schedule visit www.summit.historicnewengland.org
Historic New England has mounted an exhibit at The Eustis Estate in Milton, Massachusetts. The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home explores the evolution of American interior design by spotlighting four historic homes – Beauport-Sleeper-McCann House, Codman Estate, Gibson House, Pendleton House – and their creators.
The exhibition examines the roles Ogden Codman Jr., Charles Hammond Gibson, Charles Leonard Pendleton, and Henry Davis Sleeper played in early twentieth-century preservation and interior design, highlighting an extraordinary range of furnishings, design work, and personal artifacts drawn from their homes.
The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home is on view until October 27, 2024 at the Eustis Estate in Milton, Mass. The Eustis Estate is open from Friday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Click here to learn more about The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home.
