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The Lyman House Memorial Museum, also known as the Lyman Museum and Lyman House, is a Hilo, Hawaii-based natural history museum founded in 1931 in the Lyman family mission house, originally built in 1838. The main collections were moved to an adjacent modern building in the 1960s, while the house is open for tours as the island's oldest ...
The estate was established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman on 400 acres (160 ha) of grounds, and was the Lyman family's summer residence for over 150 years. It consisted originally of the mansion and its lawns, gardens, greenhouses, woodlands, a deer park, and a working farm.
Florence "Flo" & Katherine "Kay" Lyman, identical twin savants; Cameron Macaulay, a boy from Barra, Scotland who claimed to have memories of a past life as an American airman in World War II; José Mestre, who suffered a huge, life-threatening facial tumor
A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that is preserved as a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of standards, including those of the International Council of Museums. Houses are transformed into ...
The William and Julia Lyman House in Parowan, Utah was constructed in c. 1895. Constructed by William and Julia Lyman, the house is common for an eighteenth-century American building construction. It is one of the few remaining houses of its kind in Parowan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] [2]
Lyman House may refer to the following houses in the United States: By state, then city/town Lyman House (Asylum Hill, Connecticut) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Hartford County
The house was built in 1829 for Captain Daniel Deshon, the master of a local whaling vessel, and is a particularly elegant example of late Federal architecture. It was purchased in 1851 by Lyman Allyn, also a whaling captain [3] who greatly enlarged his fortune by investing in railroads and other businesses. The museum that now owns the house ...
Duane Lyman (1886–1966) was an architect based in Buffalo, New York, known for his prolific career which included 100 school buildings, many churches, and numerous large homes both in the city and suburban communities. At the time of his death, Lyman was referred to as the "dean of Western New York Architecture."