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The most known owner was the nonconformist James Hill (c.1800–1871), banker, corn merchant and Owenite social utopian. James Hill's third wife, Caroline Southwood Hill (1809–1902), writer and educationist, daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith. The most well known resident, until the age of two was Octavia Hill after whom the museum is now ...
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, was built by railroad magnate James J. Hill. The house, completed in 1891, is near the eastern end of Summit Avenue near the Cathedral of Saint Paul. The house, for its time, was very large and was the "showcase of St. Paul" until James J. Hill's death in 1916. [1]
This article was split from List of museums in Texas.. The Texas & Pacific Depot's Railway Museum. The list of museums in Texas encompasses 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 ...
Jim and Gloria Austin are the owners of the museum, where 95% of the items have been donated from people’s attics, garages and stores or were found by someone sifting through the junk inside a barn.
Tickets for the museum, open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, will cost $23 in an homage to James' jersey number. Children 5 years old and younger will be admitted for free.
In 1943 Driscoll donated the homesite to be used as a city museum. In 1961, the site was converted to the Laguna Gloria Art Museum and became an important part of the Austin arts scene. Soon after, the museum began offering art classes, and in 1983, a 5,300-square-foot (490 m 2) facility was built specifically for the growing art school.
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Buildings which remain part of the property include the Pope-Riddle House itself (a large 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m 2) mansion built in the Colonial Revival style and once described as "a great new house on a hilltop" by novelist and occasional guest Henry James); an 18th-century farm house; a carriage garage with an Arts and Crafts theater ...