About 200 people turned out for the Marblehead Museum gala Saturday night, celebrating the completion of the $1.4 million Brick Kitchen project. The Brick Kitchen, part of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion on Washington Street, is only the third surviving detached slave quarters owned by a museum in New England. The building served as the hub of domestic labor, both hired and enslaved, in the Lee household beginning in the 1760s.
The building’s second floor will house the museum’s archival materials.
The gala “was an opportunity to thank all those who supported the project, including donors, our project Building Committee, the contractors who worked on the project and all those who lent their support in a myriad of ways,” said Marblehead Museum Executive Director Lauren McCormack. “We will finish moving in over the next few months and the research center will be open to the public in early 2026.”
