News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Preservation Trust will celebrate its 10th year anniversary Summer Kitchen Tour on Thursday, July 17 from 10 am to 3 pm. New this year, tour participants can purchase “combo tickets” that include a BBQ lunch between noon and 2 pm. The popular NPT Kitchen Tour features different houses […]
Nantucket Preservation Trust Awards For seven years, the Nantucket Preservation Trust has awarded Preservation Awards to recognize those who have advanced the cause of preservation through their renovation work and stewardship of Nantucket buildings and historic landscapes. The 2013 NPT’s awards highlight restorations, sensitive additions to historic buildings, and the […]
by Amy Roberts Nantucket’s architecture provides great insight into the history of domestic life over nearly 400 hundred years. A walk along the historic downtown streets reveals captivating and contrasting architectural elements that echo the lives of island residents. From the colonial settlement era of the seventeenth- century to the […]
