Join the NSCDA-MA for the 2025 Spring Membership Tea. This event will include a docent led tour of Prescott House. The Membership Tea on Sunday March 30th welcomes new colonial members, courtesy, and transfer Dames, as well as prospective members. This event sign-up will close on March 25th. After March 25th please email Robin Ryan...
Join the NSCDA-MA for the 16th Annual Jean Brett Lecture. This year will feature Leslie B. Jones the Director of Museum Affairs at Newport Mansions Organization. The lecture starts at 6:15 PM with mocktails/cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 7:15 PM. Leslie B. Jones Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at The Preservation Society of...
On February 11th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm please join the NSCDA-MA for an exclusive fashion show curated by Elizabeth Weisblatt, Collections Manager at Prescott House. The event, priced at $35 per ticket, includes a light lunch served around noon. Don't miss the opportunity to experience a stunning showcase of 100 years of outerwear!...
Please join the NSCDA-MA for the Holiday Cocktail Party hosted by the Young Dames Committee. The Young Dames Committee invites all Dames, Warriors, and guests to an evening of cocktails, conversation, and holiday merriment.
Join the NSCDA-MA for a Festive Holiday Luncheon at Prescott House. Featuring guest speaker Carolyn Ravenscroft of the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society followed by holiday drinks and a festive buffet luncheon! Registration open to members only from Nov. 1 until Nov. 18; guest sign-ups welcome beginning Nov. 18, space permitting. Thank you!
Please join the NSCDA-MA for the Fall Membership Tea. This event will include a docent led tour of Prescott House. The Membership Tea on Sunday, October 6th welcomes new colonial members, courtesy, and transfer Dames, as well as prospective members.
Please join the NSCDA-MA for the Welcome Back Fall Cocktail Party on Wednesday September 25th. This party will include hearty appetizers and full bar featuring Stone Fence drinks as well as Sam Adams beer. All members, spouses, and guests welcome!
Please join the Young Dames Committee as we gather to toast the end of summer and sample a selection of rosés, whites, and other varieties. Light refreshments will be served. Please note all Dames are welcome!
The Massachusetts Dames cordially invite you to the Peony Party. Join fellow Dames for an evening of celebration, cocktails, and Bo Winiker's music provided through the generosity of Tom Thaler. Remembering Grace Yeomans Thaler Grace was a generous and dedicated Dame who lost her battle with pancreatic cancer in 2013. The Peony Party sprouted from...
Carolyn Ravenscroft, Archivist and Historian of the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society will inform of the history of early American women botanists and Ashley Mohrman, historic preservation volunteer, avid gardener, and artisan will provide a flower pressing demonstration including supplies for guests to create cards, book marks, gift tags during the event. A box lunch...
The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts invites participants in the 2024 Hidden Garden Tours of Beacon Hill to enjoy a boxed lunch at the historic William Hickling Prescott House. Lunch will be served between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm, and will include a half-sandwich (choice of chicken salad or...
Enjoy an evening of cocktails and conversation with fellow Dames and Warriors. Please bring a prospective candidate as your guest. A genealogist will be present to answer eligibility questions, and we will hear welcoming remarks from both of our Presidents. May 2, 2024 6:00 - 8:00 pm William Hickling Prescott House 55 Beacon...
All NSCDA-MA prospective and current members are cordially invited to an afternoon tea at Prescott House. Learn more about the organization and this beautiful property through conversation with current members and a docent-led tour of the collections. Online RSVPs close on Friday, March 22nd at 9:00 am. If you wish to RSVP after this...
Jean Brett Lecture Series, Brooke Barbier author of King Hancock presents “Huzzah! Drinking with John Hancock during the Revolution” followed by cocktails including a feature drink and hearty appetizers, book sale & signing. ______________________________________________________________________________________ When John Hancock needed to win people over, he didn’t talk about resisting taxes or policy improvements; instead, he served alcohol....
The Young Dames Committee invites all Dames, Warriors, and guests to an evening of cocktails, conversation, and holiday merriment! See below to RSVP and reserve a parking pass.
Prescott House is Part of the 2023 Beacon Hill Holiday House Tour on December 10th Join us for a rare opportunity to experience a select group of remarkable private residences festively decorated for the holidays The Nichols House Museum, which is part of the Alliance of House Museums along with Prescott House, has organized a holiday...
In partnership with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, Hub Town Tours is elated to offer special holiday tours inside one of the hidden gems in Boston’s Beacon Hill. Join us for impressive Victorian-era history amidst a fun, festive holiday atmosphere! Fridays & Saturdays in December Friday: 2pm–5pm | Saturday: 11am–2pm Open House plus Guided Tours...
Join fellow Dames for a lecture and luncheon at this annual members-only event. See below to reserve your spot and to learn more about Ken Torino's lecture, “Deck the Halls: Female Abolitionists and Christmas." RSVP now, tickets always sell out! “Deck the Halls: Female Abolitionists and Christmas" What we think of as the...
Rescheduled from 10/19. More information coming soon!
Please join fellow Dames and Warriors in the annual "Welcome Back" cocktail party! Catch up with friends over drinks and heavy hors d oeuvres.
The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts cordially invites you to its Fall Membership Tea With a Docent-Led Tour of Prescott House Welcoming new Colonial, Courtesy, and Transfer Dames and Prospective Members
Please join us for the opening event of the 2023-2024 Dames season! Making Millinery Work: Charting the Successes & Hardships of Entrepreneurial Women in the Nineteenth Century Given by NSCDA-MA Collections Manager Liz Weisblatt Expanding upon research from By Her Own Design: Women Milliners of Boston, this lecture will explore millinery work as...
Julia Breckenridge has spent her summer interning in the NSCDA-MA Costume Collection - join us for a brown bag lunch to learn about her research! Julia is a junior at Middlebury College studying art history and theater with a focus in costume. She has been passionate about historical clothing since she was a kid and she...
Don your best hat and enjoy the opening of the Summer 2023 exhibition, a fundraiser for the preservation and exhibition of the NSCDA-MA Costume Collection! Join Dames and others for a celebratory garden party on the private patio of Prescott House. By Her Own Design explores the lives of the entrepreneurial female milliners of Boston...
The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts invites participants in the 2023 Hidden Garden Tours of Beacon Hill to enjoy a boxed lunch at the historic William Hickling Prescott House. Lunch will be served between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm, and will include a half-sandwich (choice of chicken salad or...
Join fellow Dames on a walking tour of Beacon Hill with Prescott House's tour partner, Hub Town Tours. This tour will bring you into the must-see neighborhood of Beacon Hill, home to 19th-century mansions, cobblestone alleys, and Underground Railroad stops. As you stroll past all fourteen official landmarks on the Black Heritage Trail, hear true...
Enjoy an evening of cocktails and conversation with fellow Dames and Warriors. Please bring a prospective candidate as your guest. A genealogist will be present to answer eligibility questions, and we will hear welcoming remarks from both of our Presidents. May 4, 2023 6:00 - 8:00 pm William Hickling Prescott House 55 Beacon...
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts cordially invite you to the 14th annual Jean Brett Lecture by Joe Cornish, Preservation Historian. This exciting lecture, titled "The Architectural Legacy of Asher Benjamin: 1773-1845," commemorates the 250th birthday of Asher Benjamin, the architect of Prescott House. Asher Benjamin (1773-1845)...
New members are invited to join select board members for a dinner at Prescott House to welcome them to the NSCDA-MA.
Dames and invited guests are welcome to join the NSCDA-MA for a rousing lecture by author William Martin on his latest book, December 41. On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill...
