Upcoming Events
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.
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.”
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.
Past Events
March 14, 2025 - Boston Artists Ensemble
Come join us in our lovely ballroom for the next performance of the Boston Artists Ensemble! Three incredible musicians will be performing Beethoven Trios. Tickets are $15 for students, $30 for seniors, and $35 for adults. Click the button below to purchase.
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
Stay tuned to this website, our social media, and our weekly emails for updates on this upcoming event! If you or a friend would like to receive a formal printed invitation, fill out this form.
To purchase tickets online, click the button below.
February 16, 2025 - Colonial Dance Lessons
Are you excited for the Revolution Ball and want to brush up on your dance steps? Not planning to attend the Ball but love to learn new dances? Join us for one or both of the dance lessons being offered at the Hall by Commonwealth Vintage Dancers. Attendees will receive instruction from talented teachers in the beautiful third-floor Supper Room, learning several colonial-era dances, including “Cat in Pattens” and “Garland of Roses.”
Tickets: $20/class or $35/both classes. Click the button below to purchase your ticket.
November 3, 2024 at 3pm - Author Eric Jay Dolin presents the Americana Lecture on his book Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Hamilton Hall is delighted to welcome local Marblehead, MA author Eric Jay Dolin as our Fall 2024 Americana Lecturer. In Rebels at Sea, Dolin contends that privateers, though often seen as profiteers at best and pirates at worst, were in fact critical to the Revolution’s outcome. Armed with cannons, swivel guns, muskets, and pikes―as well as government documents granting them the right to seize enemy ships―thousands of privateers tormented the British on the broad Atlantic and in bays and harbors on both sides of the ocean. Abounding with tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution as we have rarely seen it before.