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Museum Affiliations Newport and nearby Providence, Rhode Island are home to some of the premier collections of Newport furniture. Jeffrey Greene is fortunate to have agreements enabling the replication of items in their collections. The
Newport Historical Society The Newport Historical Society has chosen Jeffrey Greene to replicate the furniture in its collection, including those pieces on display at the Museum of Newport History. Among the hundreds of examples of furniture in the collection are an early Townsend family slipper-foot tea table and a chest-on-chest authenticated to John Townsend. This unique arrangement is the first time a major collection has been authorized to be replicated by an individual maker, making these replicas exact, authentic, and handmade as were the originals. Rhode
Island Historical Society Among the properties of the Rhode Island Historical Society is the John Brown House, built in Providence in 1786 by this wealthy merchant. It is a showcase of Goddard and Townsend masterpieces with examples by Providence cabinetmakers as well. Here one of two known Goddard corner chairs and one of the few examples of a Goddard tea table may be seen. Through an exclusive agreement with the Society, both of these designs may be replicated for sale by Jeffrey Greene. Newport
Restoration Foundation While urban renewal programs were decimating much of historic Newport in the 1960s, the late Doris Duke founded the Newport Restoration Foundation to protect and restore scores of 18th and 19th-century houses and buildings. One of these is the Samuel Whitehorne House Museum at 416 Thames Street, which houses Duke's magnificent collection of Newport furniture. Among the many masterpieces are a superb early Newport slipper-foot lowboy and a tall-post bed by John Townsend. The NRF has opened a retail shop directly across from the museum which includes Jeffrey Greene's replicas of some of Doris Duke Collection originals.
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