Hunt House Museum

About this museum

The city of East Providence, Rhode Island has a history that is older than Rhode Island itself - settled in the 1640s, it sat at the edge of a colonial frontier where Wampanoag territory met English expansion, and the centuries since have layered industrial, maritime, and immigrant history onto that original foundation. The Hunt House Museum, operated by the East Providence Historical Society, preserves that layered past in a domestic setting that gives history its proper human scale. The Historical Society's dedicated volunteers have assembled collections that document East Providence across time - from its seventeenth - century roots through its industrial heyday to the twentieth - century community that many current residents still remember. House museums of this type succeed when they manage to balance preservation with accessibility, inviting visitors to see the past not as a foreign country but as a continuing story, and the Hunt House has evidently achieved that balance: with a rating of 4.9 stars from visitors who have made the effort to seek it out, the museum has earned the admiration of everyone who has found it. Admission is free, in keeping with the Historical Society's mission to make East Providence's history available to all. Visit ephist.org for current visiting hours, tour schedules, and information about the Society's broader programming, which extends beyond the Hunt House to lectures, publications, and preservation advocacy. The Hunt House Museum is located in Rumford, a neighborhood of East Providence, Rhode Island. For visitors exploring Narragansett Bay and the communities that grew up around it, East Providence offers a chapter of colonial and industrial history that rewards careful attention.