The Newport Historical Society’s extensive furniture collection includes twelve significant desks featured in the new exhibit A Writer’s Dozen.
Open through March 31, 2014
Monday – Friday, 10am-4pm
Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, 82 Touro Street, Newport
$5 Suggested Donation, free for members
The Cozzens Desk.
A Writer’s Dozen highlights desks made by local craftsmen – and two fine examples from Providence. All were used by Newporters, and in some cases, by multiple generations. Many of the traditional Newport desk forms are included, as well as some less common arrangements. The exhibit includes the desk at which William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence, worked and wrote.