BankNewport President & CEO, Thomas W. Kelly (center)
and Vice President and Jamestown Branch Manager,
Michael DeVito (right) recently joined Jamestown Museum Capital Campaign Co-Chairs, John A. Murphy (left) and
Anne Maxwell Livingston (front) and Jamestown Historical Society President, Rosemary Enright (right) to view first
hand the completed stone access ramp into the Museum.
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JAMESTOWN, R.I. (May 22, 2008) – BankNewport President and CEO, Thomas W. Kelly and Vice President and Jamestown Branch Manager, Michael DeVito recently joined Jamestown Historical Society President, Rosemary Enright and Capital Campaign Co-Chairs, Anne Maxwell Livingston and John A. Murphy to view first hand the completed stone access ramp into the Jamestown Museum, located at 92 Narragansett Avenue. Museum accessibility was one of the primary projects identified by the Society in its $500,000 capital campaign. BankNewport extended a grant in the amount of $10,000 for the project, to ensure the Jamestown Museum is safe and accessible to all members of the community.
The goal of the Society’s yearlong capital campaign was to raise the necessary funding for extensive physical improvements to the Museum, including a heating system, insulation and environmental controls to protect the collection; cataloging and digitizing of the collections; and handicap accessibility into the facility. The Society exceeded their campaign goal, raising a total of $502,200, as well as in-kind support totaling over $18,000.
The Jamestown Historical Society is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing the heritage of Jamestown, Rhode Island. Founded in 1912, the Society has whole or partial responsibility for maintaining and displaying the historic Jamestown windmill (1787), the nearby Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse (1786-1787), the Jamestown
Historical Society Museum (1886), the 1776 Conanicut Battery, and the 1657 Land Agreement on display in the Town Hall. For more information or to extend a donation, contact the Society at (401) 423-0784 or visit their website at jamestownhistoricalsociety.org.
BankNewport, founded in 1819 and currently holding $1 billion in assets, is an FDIC-insured savings bank and is a subsidiary of the Mutual Holding Company, OceanPoint Financial Partners, MHC. Along with its other OceanPoint Financial Partners - OceanPoint Insurance Agency, Inc., Smith Mack & Associates, Meredith & Clarke, and Narragansett Underwriting Group – BankNewport is proud to serve the financial needs of customers from banking and insurance offices located throughout southeastern New England.
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