SILVER & SPINDLES

Through the dive into dining culture at Lippitt House Museum in the #TasteofProvidence series, it becomes clear that the customs and...

The dining room of Lippitt House Museum is home to an array of art pieces, though none are quite as intriguing as The Chocolate Girl....

Surrounded by the grandeur of Lippitt House’s dining room, it is easy to lose sight of some of the harsh realities of history. However,...

During WWI, May Lippitt Steedman, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann, worked with the Providence Red Cross heading the knitting and garment...

Museum intern and guest blogger, introduces her series, "A Taste of Providence."

If you visited Lippitt House Museum in the summer of 2017, you would have experienced the special exhibition, “The Art of Dining: A Taste...

In the late 19th century with the growth of manufacturing capacity to meet demands from the growing consumer market, there was an...

What better way to honor the 100th anniversary of “The Vote” than to prepare a recipe from The Woman Suffrage Cook Book? Published in...

One of the things that drew me to work at Lippitt House Museum was its commitment to the family’s legacy of civic engagement. In an...

Intern Arianna Zakrzewski shares details about her internship project.

Arianna Zakrzewski, a student at Johns Hopkins University's AAP Museum Studies Master's program, describes what it is like to be an

During the summer of 2019, I worked as an intern in the archives at the Lippitt House. I quite enjoyed the experience; through reading...

Through the Studio Institute program, I had the pleasure of interning at the Lippitt House Museum as their collection and research...

Through my research of the Lippitt family’s art collection for my summer internship, I learned the Lippitt family acquired works by New...

Since 2012 Lippitt House Museum knew we needed to implement a plan (and raise the necessary funds) to replace the failing asphalt shingle...

To me, one of the many exciting things about working in a house museum is that you never know what kind of treasures you might find....

Jenna D'Alessandro's perspective on her high school internship at Lippitt House.

For the 2017 visitation season, Lippitt House Museum organized The Art of Dining: A Taste of Providence's Golden Age. The exhibition is...

Lippitt House is pretty much as new as museums get. It opened its doors as a museum in 1993 and only hired its first director in 2013....

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