The Fall 2024 Exploring History Newsletter is now available. Click here, or anywhere on the image above for the full 8 page edition.
A Reporter Remembers… When Newspapers Mattered, Lecture by Scott MacKay
Spring 2024 Exploring History Newsletter
Lecture: A Constitutional Culture, by Adian Weimer, PhD. History Professor, Providence College
Lecture & Annual Meeting: Dr. George Haines & The Fresh Air Cure Presented by Scott Bean
Fall 2023 Edition of BPS Exploring History Newsletter Now Available
The Fall 2023 Edition of the BPS Exploring History Newsletter is now available. Click the image below to open.
2023 Plaque Program: Transformations: Wednesday 9/13 at 7 PM
Please join Barrington Preservation Society on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 7PM in the Salem Family Auditorium, Barrington Public Library, for our Annual Plaque Program. During this year’s event, five historic homes will be recognized and presented with new BPS historic house plaques. BPS Past President Nathaniel Taylor will provide this year’s program lecture, highlighting Barrington’s growth and development during this transformative turn-of-the-century period, as seen through this year’s plaque recipient properties, their original owners, and their neighborhoods.
2023 New Plaque Recipients:
Pary-Farina House, c. 1892/1923
100 Maple Avenue
Caleb R. Nye, 1895
50 Lincoln Avenue
Isaac F. Foster, 1910
132 County Road
C. Moulton Stone, c. 1917
37 New Meadow Road
Edmund P. Sayles, 1923
3 Glen Avenue
BPS “Exploring History” Newsletter Fall 2022 Edition
The BPS Newsletter is now titled “Exploring History.” The Fall 2022 edition is now available online (click image):
Belton Court informational page
The threatened demolition of Belton Court has brought it back to the fore. Barrington Preservation Society has put up an informational page on the legacy of Belton Court and its builder, Frederick Stanhope Peck.