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The museum, which houses the world's largest collection of Andy Griffith memorabilia, is located in Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. [1] Much of the museum's collection was acquired by Griffith's friend and the founder of Andy Griffith Museum, Emmett Forrest. [2] The facility opened to the public on September 26, 2009. [3]
This list of museums in North Carolina is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Mount Airy: 17: Lebanon Hill Historic District: December 22, 2020 : Roughly bounded by Howard, Mitchell, South, and Woodruff Sts., and the Mount Airy Historic District: Mount Airy: 18: Marion House and Marion Brothers Store
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Mount Airy / ˈ m aʊ n t ər i / [4] is a city within Surry County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 10,676, an increase of 288 (+2.8%) from the 2010 census count of 10,388. [ 5 ]
The district encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding industrial and residential sections of Mount Airy. They were primarily built between about 1880 and 1930 and include notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture.
Mount Airy was incorporated as a village in 1865 from land given by Mill Creek and Green townships. [3] Mount Airy was annexed by the City of Cincinnati in 1911. [4] The neighborhood includes the 1,471 acre Mount Airy Forest, the largest of the Cincinnati parks. The Mt. Airy water tower, resembling a castle, was built in 1926-27.
Cincinnati Type & Print Museum: Lower Price Hill History Letterpress Museum, Artist Studio, Job Training Program [1] Contemporary Arts Center: Central Business District Art Duke Energy Children's Museum: West End Children's Part of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, formerly the Cinergy Children's Museum Fire Museum of Greater ...