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The Hood Museum's collection is drawn from a wide range of cultures and historical periods. The 65,000 objects in the museum's care represent the diverse artistic traditions of six continents, including, broadly, Native American, [11] European [12] and American, [13] Asian, [14] Indigenous Australian, [15] African, [16] and Melanesian art. [17]
The Hopkins Center is connected to the Hood Museum of Art, North America's oldest museum in continuous operation. [citation needed] This is Dartmouth's own museum, which houses both permanent collections and visiting exhibitions. After a walk through the museum, one can visit the Hood's museum store which is located next to the Courtyard Café.
This list of museums in New Hampshire 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.
Hood died in 1990, having resisted calls to sell or donate Goodwood to allow it to be torn down for development. After his death the Margaret E. Wilson Foundation, which he created, and its operating agent Goodwood Museum and Gardens, Inc. assumed stewardship for Goodwood. View from the Carriage House. Tower under renovation, as it appeared in ...
The house is officially named the Hays-Hood House --- in recognition of the only two families to ever own the 95-year-old house. Jesse Hays, who helped start Tallahassee's first phone company, had ...
The principal building in and the focal point of the district is the historic Hood County Courthouse built in 1890–1891. Other major buildings include the 1885 Hood County Jailhouse, the 1885 First National Bank Building, the 1891 building which formerly housed the Hood County News , the 1893 Aston-Landers Saloon Building, [ 2 ] the 1893 Nutt ...
Vista House is a museum at Crown Point in Multnomah County, Oregon, that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway. The site, situated on a rocky promontory, is 733 feet (223 m) above the Columbia River on the south side of the Columbia River Gorge .
The Mabry Hood House, also known as the Mabry Hood Mansion, and the Upland South Plantation, [1] was a former cotton plantation and historic antebellum style plantation home once located on the south side of Kingston Pike at the intersection of Mabry Hood Road in Knox County, Tennessee.