Get a glimpse of Hollywood history at Linden Place Mansion this summer at the museum’s summer exhibit highlighting the life and career of actress, Ethel Barrymore.
This display from the museum’s collection introduces visitors to rarely seen artifacts, theater memorabilia, photographs, and documents on the Academy Award-winning actress, Ethel Barrymore’s career and her connection to the Colts of Linden Place, giving a whole new on this fascinating Bristol family.
Ethel Barrymore was a highly regarded stage actress in New York City and a major Broadway and film performer. Barrymore won an Oscar for best supporting actress. She married Russell Colt, great-grandson of George DeWolf who built Linden Place, in 1909 and had three children with him. She is the great-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.
This special exhibit is included in museum admission. Linden Place is open for tours Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10am to 4pm, and by appointment.
About Linden Place:
Built in 1810, Linden Place is a magnificent example of Federal Period architecture and it is extremely important with respect to U.S. social history. Four U.S. Presidents visited Linden Place and the great stage and film star Ethel Barrymore once summered here as did Samuel Colt, scion of the gun inventing colts of Hartford, Connecticut who started United States Rubber and Industrial Trust Company (later Fleet Bank). The DeWolf/Colts who built Linden Place and occupied it for seven generations served in the U.S. Senate and were instrumental in both the War of 1812 and the transatlantic slave trade. As the only DeWolf ‘great house’ extant, Linden Place has become central to discussions of northern complicity in the triangle trade.
Linden Place also provides cultural enrichment to the Rhode Island and south coast communities from hosting music concerts, lectures, and tours to our summer arts camp for children. Known as “Bristol’s Living Room”, Linden Place hosts local schools and assists fellow non-profits with their programming and fundraising efforts through donated use of its ballroom.
For further information please visit the Linden Place website at www.lindenplace.org or call 401-253-0390.
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