Upcoming Events
Stay tuned! It’s wedding season here at the Hall but we have some wonderful events ahead. If you’re not already on our email newsletter list, please sign up HERE. You’ll receive the latest updates from the Hall approximately once per week. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Coming in 2026!
Drs. Donna Seger and Brad Austin of Salem State University will be presenting a talk on their upcoming book, Salem’s Centuries: New perspectives on the history of an old American city.
4:00pm, Sunday, January 25
This will be an official Salem 400+ event, free to the public. Registration will open closer to the event. Stay tuned to our website for updates!
Past Events
May 4, 2025 - Americana Lecture: Erica Lome, PhD
Join Erica Lome, Curator of Collections at Historic New England for our spring Americana Lecture as she discusses “Liberty & Loyalty: Embroidered coats of arms in an age of revolution” at 4pm on May 4. A light reception will follow the lecture.
Lome has a PhD in History from the University of Delaware and a MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center. Her upcoming exhibition at Historic New England is “Myth and Memory: Stories of the revolution,” and will open at the Eustis Estate in Milton, Massachusetts in May 2026. Needlework pictured: Mary Jones (1748-1830), ca. 1768-70. Boston and Weston, MA. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Cummings E. Davis; T900.
April 18, 2025 - Boston Artists Ensemble
Join us in the ballroom for Boston Artists Ensemble’s final concert of the season at Hamilton Hall. Enjoy the Brahms String Quartet No. 2 and Schonberg “Transfigured Night.”
April 10, 2025 - Natalie Dykstra, author of Chasing Beauty
Award-winning author Natalie Dykstra will present a lecture on her new biography Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner—the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra illuminates the fascinating ways the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words.
Lecture followed by a light reception and book signing with the author and Wicked Good Books. This event is presented in partnership with The Salem Athenaeum.
February 22, 2025 - Revolution Ball
We’re excited to announce that Hamilton Hall will be hosting a Revolution Ball in February! The Ball is part of an incredible weekend of events planned in celebration and commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the failed Salem Gun Powder Raid (also known as Leslie’s Retreat) in February of 1775.
Leslie’s Retreat happened prior to the gunpowder raids on Lexington and Concord. It has the distinction of being a potentially violent encounter between colonists and British that ended in diplomacy, the retreat of the British, and no shots fired.
Time: 7:30-11:30pm