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Despite the solemn Renaissance Revival façade, it strikes many visitors as they enter Lippitt House Museum that this 1865 mansion is not...

The elaborate interior painting is probably Lippitt House’s most striking feature. But over the years, moisture from several different...

A house as beautiful and grand as Lippitt House did not maintain itself. It required a significant amount of upkeep and work. Though the...

This spring, I had the pleasure of working with Director Carrie Taylor to help re-vamp and re-form the annual fundraising event for...

Lippitt Family Holiday Dinner, ca. 1945 Through the dive into dining culture at Lippitt House Museum in the #TasteofProvidence series, it becomes clear that the customs and traditions surrounding food contribute to a sense of community. When I first began exploring the topic of dining culture, I imagined it would stay within the walls of the museum itself, but the research soon showed me how ubiquitous many of the stories surrounding food were for Providence and the country a

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, reading through...

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....