All members of the Warner House Association are invited to attend in person or via Zoom for our 2025 annual meeting on Thursday, January 16 at 6pm in the Carriage House. The address is 150 Daniel Street in Portsmouth.  The Carriage House is located behind the Warner House, with access from Chapel Street.

The meeting will last about 60 minutes. Please bring your ideas or concerns for the upcoming season - we're excited to share our accomplishments from 2024 and to look forward to an exciting 2025.

We hope that you can join us in-person but with many respiratory illnesses going around, not to mention life in general, we know it can be difficult. If you'd rather to join us via Zoom, email info@warnerhouse.org.

Learn about how the gardens of the Warner House changed over the centuries including the design, purpose, and locations.  Find out more about what the Portsmouth Garden Club has done in the past 25 years to care for and maintain the garden as it is today.

All talks will start at noon with soup available at 11:30.  Tickets are $10 each for non-members, or Warner House members are FREE. Join today to come for free! To purchase a ticket as a non-member, visit our PayPal to donate, choose Other, and pay $10.

Seats are limited so please RSVP to ensure you have a spot.  Email manager@warnerhouse.org or call (603) 436-5909 to RSVP. Cash or card accepted, but cash is preferred.

This event is SOLD OUT. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org to be put on a waiting list.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Dave Pepson. Warner House volunteer and researcher, David Pepson, has uncovered even more details and new information about the Warner House murals of two Mohawk Sachems, thought to be painted about 1720. Come hear what secrets Dave has to share with us.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Nancy Hammond.

Jonathan Mitchel Sewall was born in Salem, Massachusetts and educated at Boston Public Latin School. When he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a young lawyer at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he wrote the words to a song that was sung in all the American camps, taverns, homes, and on the march. He also wrote the New Hampshire Bill of Rights, contributed songs and poetry to every civic celebration, and probably presented the 1779 Petition of Freedom, authored and signed by 20 enslaved Black men, to the General Assembly of the state. If there had been a Poet Laureate of Portsmouth at that time it would have been Jonathan Mitchel Sewall.

Join us as Portsmouth author Nancy Hammond shares her well-researched account of Sewall’s life and his impact on our young country.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.

Join us for an immersive gala to benefit the Warner House. This event will be held in our legendary gardens and tickets are limited so reserve your space now!

Dinners and cocktails by Chill Catering with live musical performances and unique, immersive historical experiences. Suggested dress code is cocktail attire.

We ask you to kindly choose footwear with flat heels for your comfort and safety, to protect the grounds, and preserve the house’s original floors.

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Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Alan Hoffman, sponsored by NH Humanities.

In 1824-1825 the Marquis de Lafayette visited all 24 states as the last surviving major general of the Continental Army. This Farewell Tour was described by contemporaries as a unique and extraordinary event. Edward Everett of Massachusetts called the Tour “an event taken in all its part, unparalleled in the history of man.” In this program, Alan Hoffman, translator of Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, a first-hand account of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour, will examine how Lafayette’s story-book life, role in the American Revolution, friendship with George Washington, support of American interests, and his Farewell Tour shaped his remarkable reputation. He will highlight Lafayette’s visits to cities and towns in New Hampshire to illustrate how the American people celebrated Lafayette and America during the Tour. This talk is sponsored by the NH Humanities.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Michael Geanoulis, Sr.

In December of 1774, a group of men stormed Fort William and Mary (now known as Fort Constitution) in New Castle, NH, signaling a huge escalation in tensions between the American Colonists and the Crown. However, most tend to focus on the battles at Lexington and Concord as being the start of the American Revolution. However, the ground was laid much before that fateful April battle. In fact, the raid at New Castle, convinced King George four months earlier that he had a serious rebellion on his hands – led in part by Paul Revere, John Langdon, John Stark, and other members of the Sons of the American Revolution. Join us as New Castle author Michael Geanoulis recounts this obscure raid that deserves a place in the history books! Copies of his book, Shots Not Heard Round the World will be available for sale.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and soup lecture by Sylvia Olson. Everywhere in New England, we see the stone walls winding through the forests, and the silent cellar holes, carefully lined with stones, and now filled with living trees. How did the early farmers make these walls, and why? Portsmouth resident, Sylvia Olson, will share about the techniques of quarrying stone from ledge and boulder, and the immense age and amazing geology of the New Hampshire seacoast region.

Our summer lecture series will take place the 3rd Wednesday of every Monday from June through October. Lectures start at 12pm with refreshments at 11:30. Reservations are highly encouraged as we have limited seating. Please email manager@warnerhouse.org or call 603-436-5909 to save a spot.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Peter Cook on “Provisioning Portsmouth - Early Farming in the Piscataqua Region.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Carolyn S. Roy on “Tea and Teapots - East Meets West.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Emerson “Tad” Baker on “Beer and Taverns in Early New England.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Richard Nylander on “In the Latest Taste: Early Wallpapers in Portsmouth.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Dave Pepson on “The Life and Times of Archibald Macphaedris.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Stephanie Rohwer Hewson on “Highlights of the Warner House Collection.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

On Saturday, December 2nd, join us for what is sure to be a special experience - we’re excited to host a concert inside the historic ballroom in the Warner House!  Musician Joel Speers will give a concert of historic music on his lute from the 17th and 18th centuries, music that may have been played in the room when the Macpheadrises lived in the house. We only have seating for 25 people so advance tickets are highly recommended. Tickets: $20 for members/students; $25* for non-members

The concert will start at 3:00pm and we invite you all to join us and then head downtown after for the City of Portsmouth’s tree lighting and holiday parade - a perfect holiday afternoon!  

To purchase tickets, please visit https://warnerhouseconcert.brownpapertickets.com or mail a check to Warner House PO Box 895 Portsmouth, NH 03802.

*with the purchase of a full price ticket ($25) the purchaser will receive a complimentary individual membership to the Warner House, good for the 2024 season. 

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Dave Pepson on “The Warner House Mural of the Mohawk Chiefs - We Now Know the Story.”

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

Join us at The Warner House in the new carriage house for a history and hot chocolate lecture by Richard Candee on Discovering John Drew & Building Macphaedris’ House (1716-1720).

All talks are on Saturday from 2:00pm to 3:00pm with “Hot Chocolate Happy Hour” starting at 1:30pm. Talks are free, but donations are appreciated.

There is limited seating. Please register by emailing Dave Pepson at dpepson@comcast.net.

“The 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth” with speaker Charles B. Doleac, Esq. at the Carriage House.

“In the Latest Taste: Early Wallpapers in Portsmouth” with speaker Richard Nylander at the Carriage House.

“Beer and Taverns in Early New England” with speaker Emerson “Tad” Baker from Salem State University at the Carriage House.

“Provisioning Portsmouth - Early farming in the Piscataqua Region, 1650-1750” with speaker Peter Cook at the Carriage House.

“Victims to Victors - various and changing strategies and military equipment (including snow-shoes!) of early northern provincial soldiers - 1670’s to 1740’s” with speaker Hollis Brodrick at the Carriage House.

“Murals of Abraham and Isaac, the Woman Spinning Flax and the Chicken in the Eagle’s Talons - Another Perspective” with speaker Dave Pepson at the Carriage House.

“Mural of King William III - New Research Results in a Very Surprising Story” with speaker Dave Pepson at the Carriage House.

“Tea and Tea Pots - East meets West” with speaker Bob Barth at the Carriage House.

“Mural of the Mohawk Chiefs - A New Interpretation” with speaker Dave Pepson at the Carriage House.

John Drew and the building of the house (“The Merchant House”) with speaker Richard Candee at the Carriage House.

“Pewter in the American Life” - hands on with Bob Barth at the Carriage House.