Day of Event Tickets ($40) are available at the Little Compton Community Center on the Little Compton Commons beginning at 11 a.m.

Tickets are limited.  Ticket sales will end at 4 p.m.

Will Call Tickets may be picked up at the Community Center.

Houses are open from noon to 5 p.m.

Restrooms and water are available at the Community Center, Wilbor House Museum and Friends Meeting House.

Children 12 and over are welcome with a ticket.

Tickets are non-refundable.

All proceeds benefit the Little Compton Historical Society.

No photography, cell phone, food, drink, high heel shoes or pets.

The opportunity to purchase advance tickets ends at 5 PM today.  $35

In-person – The Wilbor House Museum   1 – 5 PM   (548 West Main Road)

By phone – 401-635-4035

On-line   https://littlecompton.org/programs-events/historic-house-tour/historic-house-tour-order-form/

Tomorrow House Tour Tickets will be sold beginning at 11 am at the Little Compton Historical Society.

The House Tour features 10 historic properties and runs from 12 to 5 pm.  All proceeds benefit the Little Compton Historical Society.

For a list of houses see:  https://littlecompton.org/programs-events/historic-house-tour/

Purchase $35 Advance Tickets to the House Tour until 5 PM on Saturday.

Tickets are available in person at the Wilbor House Museum (548 West Main Road) on Friday from 9 to 5 PM and on Saturday from 1 to 5 PM.

Phone orders 401-635-4035 will be taken during the same hours.

On-line orders may be made at https://littlecompton.org/programs-events/historic-house-tour/historic-house-tour-order-form/

Each on-line ticket must be ordered separately.

On the day of the event, Sunday, September 20, tickets may be purchased in person at the Little Compton Community Center on the Little Compton Commons.  $40  Cash, Checks, and Credit Cards accepted.

Ticket sales are limited.  Tickets are non-refundable.

Tour the Old Burying Ground on the Commons with Managing Director Marjory O’Toole. Meet at the Betty Alden Monument pictured here at 10 AM, Thursday August 20th and enjoy an hour and a half tour and discussion of the cemetery’s highlights. Learn the true story of Elizabeth who “should have been” the wife of Simeon Palmer and how a cat-eating minister was to blame for the couple’s troubles. Visit the graves of Elizabeth Alden Pabodie, who is believed to be the first English girl born in New England, and Benjamin Church the town’s first English settler. The tour will include a talk on gravestone “fashions” and Colonial burial customs, “slave row,” the death of seven siblings in just over a week, and the oldest gravestone in the cemetery.

Join us this Wednesday as the Little Compton Historical Society hosts its Annual Meeting at the Little Compton Community Center on August 12 at 7 PM. The public is welcome to attend this free event. A fifteen minute business meeting during which all members will vote for a new slate of officers and board members will be followed by a talk by our Managing Director Marjory O’Toole on the sometimes surprising stories recently revealed through the histories of nine of Little Compton’s antique houses. Light refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale.

A team of local researchers and writers have been working for almost a year to uncover the stories of these houses and the people who lived within them. When taken as a whole, the collection of house histories is a window into Little Compton’s past revealing the differences between first-born and later-born sons, the care given to single women by their fathers and brothers, the connection between servants and employers, the power of the government to seize property, and the long-standing Little Compton tradition of repurposing buildings into homes.

The Historical Society has been studying these houses in preparation for this year’s exhibition, book and historic house tour. The exhibit called “The Stories Houses Tell” may be visited Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM between now and Labor Day and Saturday and Sunday from Labor Day through Columbus Day. The book by the same title is available at the Historical Society, at many local retail shops and on Amazon.com. The Historical House Tour takes place Sunday, September 20 and tickets and more information is available at littlecompton.org.