Redwood Library's 1747 Store is located in the southern room off the original Harrison Room.  This small, museum-quality gift shop is manned by volunteers and is open daily from 10:30-4:00.

Items for purchase include Redwood Library logo collector items, such as tote bags, coffee mugs, book marks. Redwood publications including our coffee-table sized narrative history, Newport: A Lively Experiment 1639-1969 and other booklets about the collections are available. Additionally, Newport-related books such as Bettie Pardee's Private Newport are available for purchase. 

The 1747 Store contains a unique selection of gift and accessory items not readily found elsewhere.

Redwood Library members receive 10% discount on all items purchased in the 1747 Store.

 

Redwood's Hottest Selling Item:

 

NEWPORT: A Lively Experiment 1639 – 1969 (Redwood Library and Athenaeum; November 1, 2006; Hardcover; 544 PAGES; $49.95)) Author Rockwell Stensrud reveals a Newport that is far more important than the retreat for the wealthy that many know it as today. In the 1600s, he writes, “a few towns played dominant roles in defining the diverse character of the territory that would become the United States of America.” Newport, Rhode Island, was one of those towns.

Stensrud’s narrative history of Newport—the first book of its kind—closely examines the unique factors that made it an important city in the early colonial era, and continues to make it a historically important community today. From the time Newport was founded by men and women banished by the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, its independent and liberal character has touched countless aspects of our nation’s development.

In this wide-ranging book, Stensrud covers the political, social, and cultural importance of this city of 36,000 people. The book’s narrative includes profiles of the city’s founders (including little-known minister Dr. John Clarke, who secured Newport’s singular religious freedom in the colonies through a charter signed by King Charles II), its institutions, and great moments over the centuries. Paired with sidebars and over 200 full-color and black-and-white images, NEWPORT: A Lively Experiment, 1639-1969 brings the story of this small city to life.

Availabe from Redwood Library for $49.95.

A numbered, limited collector edition with slip case and inscription is also available only at Redwood Library, $500.

 

             

 

 

 

Private Newport: At Home and in the Garden (Bulfinch: April 2004; Hardcover: 224 pages: $40.00)

Local Newport author Bettie Bearden Pardee, in cooperation with photographer Michael Hales, presents a sumptuous photographic tour of 18 opulent private mansions and estates in Newport, Rhode Island.

Featuring 275 full-color photographs, this is the first book to reveal the privately owned mansions and gardens of Newport that are closed to the public and not part of the tours given by the Preservation Society. Never-before-published photos of these homes, which have been designed by distinguished architects and landscape designers, are stunning examples of Newport's 375-year old-world architectural heritage.

Available from Redwood Library for $40.00.

 

 

 

Redwood Library and Athenaeum:  A Guide

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