American History Museum hosted America’s Kitchens traveling exhibit from Historic New England on in 2011. The exhibit included a 1759 kitchen, a southwest adobe kitchen and a bright blue 1957 kitchen, and more. Earlier, the America’s Kitchens exhibit was at the Long Island Museum [NYT link].
From Diary to Doorstep was an online exhibit by Historic New England and later there was an article of the same name in Historical New Hampshire.
Historic New England’s online collection is searchable: Ceramics, glassware, cooking booklets, and more.
Historic New England features their 36 historic house museums online. Many of the houses have kitchen photos, and here they are:
- Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine (new kitchen, old kitchen, hoosier cabinet and wooden sink)
- Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Massachusetts (Pine Kitchen and Second Kitchen)
- Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts (pantry)
- Phillips House, Salem, Massachusetts (kitchen) (food pantry) (butler pantry)
- Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts
- Browne House, Watertown, Massachusetts
- Winslow Crocker House, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
- Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Connecticut (butler’s pantry)
- Arnold House, Lincoln, Rhode Island (fireplace)
