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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, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. It is located on 45 acres (18 ha) near Lake Champlain.
Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit education center for sustainability, 1,400-acre (570 ha) working farm, and National Historic Landmark on the shores of Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont. The property is nationally significant as a well-preserved example of a Gilded Age "ornamental farm", developed in the late 19th century with architecture by ...
Vermont Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff. Globe Pequot Press. 2008, ISBN 978-0762746699; Hill, Ralph Nading, and Lilian Baker Carlisle. The Story of the Shelburne Museum. 1955, ASIN B0007F20PQ; Shelburne Museum. 1993.
Shelburne Museum's collection of Native American art includes baskets, clothing and textiles, primarily created by Plains and Northwest Coast Tribal Nations during the late 19th and early 20th ...
A dough bowl made in the Zia Pueblo in New Mexico in the 1930s-1940s is displayed at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt., Friday, June 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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 ...
The Shelburne Railroad Station and Freight Shed are two exhibit buildings at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, United States.. In 1890 Rutland Railroad Station President Dr. William Seward Webb commissioned the building of the railroad station near the center of Shelburne village to conveniently serve passengers on the Central Vermont and Rutland Railroads.
The question of what would become of her cigar store Indians, hunting decoys, and weather vanes had to be settled. In 1947 Electra Havemeyer Webb gathered with her friends to create Shelburne Museum. Located on U.S. Route 7 in Shelburne, Vermont, Webb's museum became a haven for the handmade objects of another era. A two-hundred-year-old tavern ...