Historic East Hampton

Guided Tour of the Dominy Shops Museum
2024-10-19 10:00, 2024-11-03 11:00, 2024-11-09 10:00 (America/New_York) | Dominy Shops Museum, 73 N Main St, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
Join us for a guided tour of the Dominy Shops Museum! You can find out how the Dominy Shops returned to North Main Street, learn about the famed Dominy craftsmen, and view the exhibition, Made to Order: The Dominy Craftsmen and their Customers.

The tour, which takes place at 73 North Main Street, East Hampton, is free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.
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Guided Tour of the Moran Studio
2024-10-19 11:00, 2024-11-02 11:00, 2024-11-25 11:00, 2024-11-29 11:00 | Moran Studio, 229 Main St., East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
Join us for a guided tour East Hampton’s original artist studio and learn how the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran transformed perceptions of nature and especially the American West during the late 19th century. You’ll tour the grounds and interior of the Studio and experience how the building functioned as a home, artmaking studio, and entertainment space. You’ll also learn about Thomas Moran’s painting, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, which is displayed exactly where he hung it after the Studio was built.
Meet at 229 Main Street, East Hampton. The tour is free for Members and $12 for Non-Members.

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"Goody Garlick" Walking Tour
2024-10-19 17:00 | Gardiner Mill Cottage, 36 James Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937, United States
In February 1658, thirty-five years before the Salem Witch Trials, Elizabeth Gardiner Howell of East Hampton fell ill shortly after giving birth. Just before she died, she accused her neighbor, Goody Elizabeth Garlick, of sorcery. Join Town Historian, Hugh King, as we follow in the footsteps of Goody Garlick and explore the sites associated with witchcraft in East Hampton.
This walking tour starts at the Gardiner Mill Cottage Museum, 36 James Lane, East Hampton.
Free for members. $12 for Non-Members. Pre-registration required.
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After the tour, copies of Loretta Orion’s book about Goody Garlick, It Were As Well to Please The Devil as Anger Him, will be available to purchase for $20. Proceeds benefit the East Hampton Library.

Visit the Dominy Shops Museum
2024-10-20 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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Visit Mulford Farmstead
2024-10-26 11:00 - 16:00 | 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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Visit the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Home and Studio
2024-10-27 11:00 - 16:00 | 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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Guided Tour of Mulford Farm
2024-11-11 13:00 | 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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House & Garden Tour Preview Party Benefit - SOLD OUT
2024-11-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Maidstone Club, 50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton, NY, 11937
THE HOUSE & GARDEN TOUR, INCLUDING THE COCKTAIL PARTY, IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!
It’s the return of the East End’s original “House & Garden Tour” Benefit and this year’s edition kicks off with a special Cocktail Party on Friday, November 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Maidstone Club.
The following day, on Saturday, November 30, you’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see five spectacular houses on the 39th Annual House & Garden Tour Benefit.

Cocktail Party: Friday, November 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Maidstone Club, 50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton
House & Garden Tour: Saturday, November 30 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

The Cocktail Party and the Tour are both sold out.

House & Garden Tour Benefit - SOLD OUT
2024-11-30 13:00 - 16:30 | Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937
The House & Garden Tour Benefit is SOLD OUT!
If you already purchased tickets, you may pick up your Tour Program, which acts as your ticket, on Friday, November 29 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and on Saturday, November 30 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton. You must pick up your program by 1:00 pm on Saturday.

Cocktail Party: Friday, November 29 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Maidstone Club, 50 Old Beach Lane, East Hampton
House & Garden Tour: Saturday, November 30 from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Land & Sea: Exhibit at Clinton Academy
2024-12-09 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-10 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-11 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-12 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-13 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-16 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-17 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-18 10:00 - 15:00 and 2 more dates | Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937
Presented in collaboration with the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum, this exhibit about cartography and maritime navigation features early navigation tools, maps, and charts used by sailors from East Hampton and the South Fork to navigate the waters of the mid-Atlantic. Connecting past and present, the exhibit is on display exactly where students enrolled in Clinton Academy during the late 18th and 19th centuries learned navigation, surveying, and seafaring.
The Land & Sea exhibit is co-curated by Stacy Myers, Director of Education of the Historical Society and Prudence and Brian Carabine from the Farm Museum from the collections of both institutions. Among the highlights is a cross-staff. This celestial navigation instrument made its appearance in Europe in the 1300s and by the 1700s, it had been fully developed for use at sea. The cross-staff was used for finding the latitude by measuring the altitude of the polar star and for measuring the altitude of the sun. To measure the altitude of a celestial body, the eye-end of the staff was placed near the observer’s eye and the other end half way between the horizon and the celestial body. The vane was then slid along the staff until its upper edge appeared to touch the celestial body, while the lower edge appeared to touch the horizon. The altitude could then be read off the staff.
On display in Clinton Academy at 151 Main Street in East Hampton through December 20, Land & Sea is open Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 3 PM. The exhibition is free to visit.

"Open House" of Historic Inns & Sites
2024-12-14 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
It’s the return of a beloved holiday tradition – The Holiday Open House of Historic Inns and Sites! Presented in partnership with the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, you’re invited to take a self-guided tour of East Hampton and Amagansett’s many historic inns and sites, including Clinton Academy, the Dominy Shops, and the Moran Studio on Saturday, December 14 from 1 PM to 4 PM. Enjoy some holiday merriment while you learn about East Hampton’s history. For more information and a link to a map showing all the participating historic sites and inns, please visit the Chamber’s website.
The event is free of charge.

"FOUND" Exhibit Closing Reception
2025-01-17 16:00 - 18:00 | East Hampton Town Marine Museum, 301 Bluff Rd, Amagansett, NY, 11930
You’re invited to attend the closing reception for Found: A Series of Collections from Our Beaches, the exhibition features objects that eight-year-old Ryder Nadel discovered on East End beaches. Since he was a preschooler, he and his dad, Lee, have fished, hiked, and walked our beaches, finding trash and treasure everywhere. These jaunts sparked Ryder’s interest in conservation and at age four, he decided he didn’t want to have balloons at his birthday again. The “Marine Explorers” summer program also played an important role in spurring Ryder’s appreciation for marine life and the East End’s beaches. Picking up trash also led to the discovery of beautiful things in neglected places. This dichotomy is the essence of this show: from trash to treasure, from new to old and new again, from waste to conservation, from lost to found.
During the reception at the Marine Museum on January 17, Ryder will encourage visitors (like Peter Topping, the Peconic Baykeeper shown here) to take a closer look at some of the marine organisms that call the intertidal zone home in the winter and present a brief talk about marine debris.

Signs of Springs The Springs Artists’ Exhibition Posters
2025-01-21 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-22 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-23 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-24 10:00 - 15:00 | Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton, NY, 11937
Featuring exhibit posters publicizing the Springs Improvement Society’s annual artist invitational, Signs of Spring, curated by Aimee Lusty and Stacy Myers, is on view at Clinton Academy through February 28.
In 1968, the Springs Improvement Society held its first annual “Artists of the Springs” invitational exhibition on the grounds of Ashawagh Hall coinciding with the annual Fisherman’s Fair. It started as an outdoor exhibit to raise money for local scholarships and the construction of a gallery wing. Works were contributed by “just about every well-known artist in the Springs” reported the East Hampton Star that opening year. The first exhibit was kindled by a decades-long relationship between The Springs Improvement Society and artists that flocked to the area in the mid-1940s and 1950s, most notably Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, and John Little.
From the start, the Society appointed a chairperson each year to run the invitational in their own way. In 1972, artist Arnold Hoffman suggested that the Society produce a poster to announce and promote the show, starting a lively tradition that continues to the present day. The posters, featuring a single artwork reproduced in a variety of printing processes over the years including silkscreen and lithograph, have become collectible artworks on their own. A portfolio of the first five posters, by Ray Parker, James Brooks, Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Krasner, and Ibram Lassaw was requested by the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Exhibitions Abroad for an international traveling exhibit called Images of an Era: the American Poster, 1945-75 held in 1975.
The selected posters on view at Clinton Academy demonstrate a range of artists, printing processes, and styles from 1971 to 2024 while highlighting the contribution of women artists to the Springs community.
The posters are on loan from the Springs Historical Society and The Springs Improvement Society.
