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Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings ...
The Shelburne Museum constructed Webb Gallery in 1960 and designed the building to mimic the facades of its neighboring historic structures. Webb Gallery’s footprint, with a central gable and two flanking wings, echoes the symmetry and scale of adjacent The Dorset House, while the red brick exterior, reflects the texture and color of nearby Vergennes Schoolhouse and The Charlotte Meeting House.
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Shelburne Museum's collection of horse-drawn vehicles includes examples of 19th and early 20th century carriages, farm and trade wagons, stagecoaches, sleighs, early firefighting equipment, and almost every other type of vehicle used in New England in the 19th century. One of the most comprehensive collections in the country, it is particularly ...
When the Shelburne Museum dismantled and reassembled the Stagecoach Inn on the grounds in 1949, it needed restoration. Museum contractors removed the dividing walls in the second-story ballroom, returning it to its former dimensions; they rebuilt ten fireplaces, two brick ovens, and two ham-smoking chambers; applied paneling and plaster finishes that approximated those found in New England in ...
The Electra Havemeyer Webb Memorial Building is an exhibit building located at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, in the U.S. state of Vermont. It was built as a memorial to the museum's founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb, and her husband, James Watson Webb II. It is home to the museum's European Paintings Collection.
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When the Shelburne Museum acquired Vermont House in 1950, the building's clapboard siding and interior walls had deteriorated beyond repair. While preserving its basic structure, the museum built a new façade with stone from a Shelburne Falls gristmill, randomly laying the stones using a technique known as scatter-stone, and reconstructed the interior with salvaged feather-edged boards from ...