Historic East Hampton

Visit the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Home and Studio
2024-06-16 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-02 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-25 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Moran Studio, 229 Main St., East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
See East Hampton’s original artist studio and learn how the Morans transformed perceptions of nature and especially the American West during the late 19th century. During a self-guided tour of the Studio, visitors can experience how the building functioned as a home, artmaking studio, and entertainment space. As a special treat, you can see Thomas Moran’s painting, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus exactly as he displayed it in the Studio.
229 Main Street, East Hampton.
Free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.
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Visit the Dominy Shops Museum
2024-06-15 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-09 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-06-01 11:00 - 16:00 | Dominy Shops Museum, 73 N Main St, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
In the new Dominy Shops Museum, you can learn how the site was restored and reconstructed on the original location where three generations of East Hampton’s most acclaimed woodworkers and craftsmen made everything from cradles to coffins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The current exhibition, Made to Order: The Dominy Craftsmen and their Customers tells the stories of the variety of local residents who commissioned clocks, furniture, and tools from the Dominys.
73 North Main Street, East Hampton
Free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.
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Tour with the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society: Amagansett Lanes
2024-06-12 10:00
The Amagansett Lanes straddle two historic districts and are equidistant to ocean and village. It is why they are desirable, and under such significant development pressure. With the help of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, we’ll walk them all, from Bluff Road to Main Street and discuss it with Jaine Mehring, founder of Build.In.Kind/East Hampton.
Meet at Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett; EH Town parking permit required. Bring water.
Leader: Irwin Levy, 516-456-1337, irwintlevy@gmail.com.
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Visit Mulford Farmstead
2024-06-08 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-26 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Mulford Farmstead, 10 James Ln, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
After using the AR1776 App to explore the augmented reality program on the Farmstead’s grounds, you’ll have the opportunity to go inside one of East Hampton’s oldest homes, which never had indoor running water or toilets. During your visit, you’ll learn about the American Revolution through the eyes of the Mulford family and the enslaved Africans who lived there. Located on an original home lot in East Hampton, visitors can also see a traditional dooryard garden, which is cultivated by the Garden Club of East Hampton.
10 James Lane, East Hampton. Free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.

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Guided Tour of Mulford Farm
2024-06-07 15:00 | Mulford Farmstead, 10 James Ln, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
Visitors will have the opportunity to go inside one of East Hampton’s oldest homes and learn about the American Revolution through the eyes of the Mulford family and the enslaved Africans who lived there. Located on an original home lot in East Hampton, the tour includes a visit to a barn built in 1720 and a traditional dooryard garden, which is cultivated by the Garden Club of East Hampton. After the tour, visitors can also explore the site using the new AR1776 App, which goes further in depth about the American Revolution.
Meet at 10 James Lane, East Hampton.
Free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.
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Premiere of a new cellphone app at Mulford Farm
2024-05-26 11:30 | Mulford Farmstead, 10 James Ln, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
Join us for the launch of a new “augmented reality” cellphone app at Mulford that interprets the history of the American Revolution in East Hampton. After trying out the app, guests can speak with Hugh King, Village and Town Historian who narrated the program and the tour inside the historic farmhouse.
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Walking Tour of Main Street, East Hampton
2024-05-24 17:00 | Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937
Learn about East Hampton and how Main Street has changed over time. During the tour, you’ll get a chance to go inside Town House, see the British Headquarters during the American Revolution, and find out about enslaved Africans and Montauketts who lived and worked on Main Street. The Tour begins with a visit to Clinton Academy.
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The Dominy Shops Museum: Special Tour
2024-05-19 15:30 | Dominy Shops Museum, 73 N Main St, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
Steve Long, Executive Director of the Historical Society is offering a special opportunity to tour the Dominy Shops Museum, learn about the restoration and reconstruction of the site, and view the exhibition, Made to Order: The Dominy Craftsmen and their Customers.

The tour is free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.
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INDIGENOUS
2024-04-29 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-26 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-25 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-24 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-23 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-22 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-19 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-18 10:00 - 15:00 and 2 more dates | Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937
The exhibition is on display at Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street in East Hampton Monday through Friday 10:00AM-3:00PM through April 29.
A new exhibition at Clinton Academy, entitled INDIGENOUS, co-curated by Grace Grimes and Stacy Myers.
Starting in fall 2023, students began a cumulative interdisciplinary approach to studying cultural and natural history during the school year. The East Hampton Historical Society taught students about Indigenous peoples of North America and Eastern Long Island following state and national curricula.
Students from Amagansett School, John M. Marshall, and the Ross School, Project MOST, and the Marine Explorers Program at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum examined artifacts, identified plants, and explored topics, such as natural resources, patterns in nature, archaeology, anthropology, and natural and cultural history.
Read the complete press release on our blog.

3rd Annual Quiz Bowl
2024-04-09 17:30 - 19:30 | The Palm, 94 Main Street, East Hampton, NY
Test your knowledge of East Hampton history at our 3rd Annual Quiz Bowl hosted by Paul Johnson.
Tickets are $10 for Historical Society and Chamber Members. $20 for Non-Members.
Teams may consist of 1 to 5 players.
Taking place at The Palm, 94 Main Street, East Hampton. Cash bar.
Co-presented by the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce.

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The Plain Sight Project: Slavery on the East End
2024-03-08 19:00 | St. Luke’s Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937
Donnamarie Barnes and David Rattray, co-directors of the Plain Sight Project, will discuss the history of slavery in Colonial North America, their research on enslaved individuals on Eastern Long Island, and the creation of the Plain Sight Project. Featuring a comprehensive, public list of enslaved persons from the Colonial period to the last recorded enslaved person in East Hampton in 1830, the Plain Sight Project is reconciling with this forgotten history while taking a step to place these people and their stories back into our nation’s founding narrative.

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The Story of the Amistad
2024-02-09 19:00 | St. Luke’s Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937
Presented by Mia Certic, Executive Director of the Montauk Historical Society.
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In 1839, eight weeks after their dramatic mutiny, 49 trafficked African men aboard the schooner La Amistad dropped anchor off the coast of Montauk, desperate for fresh water and food. Instead, their ship was seized and they were transported to Connecticut as captives. These events would lead to an international diplomatic crisis and a series of momentous legal battles that brought into question basic tenets of American democracy and foreshadowed the Civil War. Mia Certic, executive director of the Montauk Historical Society, will look at this triumph of truth and justice over falsehoods and ignorance, with a special focus on the East End and its connection to this story.

The Historical Photography of William G. Howard
2024-01-12 19:00 | St. Luke’s Church, 18 James Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937
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Randy Kolhoff, the owner of Black Swan Antiques, tells the story of how discovered glass plate negatives of photographs taken by William G. Howard at the turn of the last century. In addition to seeing how Howard documented Sag Harbor and the East End, attendees will learn about the photographer’s mysterious death, which some suspect was a homicide, in 1915. Copies of the book Hamptons featuring Howard’s photographs will be available for sale following the lecture. The event is free of charge.

House & Garden Tour Cocktail Party
2023-11-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Maidstone Club, 50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937

Dominy Shops Museum
2023-11-12 11:00 | Dominy Shops Museum, 73 N Main St, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
A renowned family of East Hampton, the Dominys were known for their craftsmanship of clocks and other pieces of furniture dating back as early as the mid-1700s. Two portions of the original structure still stand today – the 1798 Dominy Clock Shop and the 1791 Dominy Carpenter Shop. The original site was located on North Main Street and relocated once prior to Further Lane where these two structures were joined into one building.
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