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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, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont museum has acquired a more than 200-piece collection of Native American art and is planning to construct a $12.6 million facility to house the pieces that make up ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Shelburne Museum. Ticonderoga Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. VT-14, " Steamboat TICONDEROGA, Shelburne Museum Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT ", 66 photos, 2 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 3 data pages, 8 photo caption pages
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.