The Village Improvement Society was created in 1913 to work for the general welfare of all the townspeople of Little Compton. The missions been: To promote and support charitable, educational and social activities in the town of Little Compton.
In 1915 Edmund Brownell Weston set up a trust to convey the Brownell House ( no endowment attached ) to the Little Compton Village Improvement Society.
In the document of the trust; the intention the house is “assigned IN TRUST: to permit the Little Compton Village Improvement Society, a corporation, to occupy said estate free of rent so long as it performs the following conditions, namely:
1.That said Society at its own expense puts the buildings and grounds of said estate in good order and repair within a reasonable time after the execution of this deed, and thereafter keeps and maintains both buildings and grounds in good order and repair.
2. That said Society occupies said estate and buildings for its headquarters and offices, or uses or permits others to use it from time to time for meetings, sewing classes, lectures or other similar purposes, my intention being that said estate shall be used fro the general good and the benefit of the people of Little Compton.
3.This conveyance is made in memory of my aunt Eliza Louise Brownell, and my mother Deborah Brownell Weston, and that said society should always maintain in a conspicuous place a bronze tablet.” commemorating the gift and the dedication.
Thus the Brownell House and the Little Compton Village Improvement Society became one.