A new chapter for an old house in Newport begins on Juneteenth

By: Janine L. Weisman

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: June 18, 2026

Words: 974

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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A cowry shell, a peach pit, and a human tooth. Beads, wooden buttons, nails, glass shards, and broken ceramics.

These are items wrapped in blue and white checkered cloth found 21 years ago underneath floorboards in the attic of Newport’s oldest surviving house.

Built in 1697 for a merchant and founding member of Newport’s Seventh Day Baptist congregation, the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House was later the home of Quaker lawyer John G. Wanton among others. …

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