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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.
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 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.
Encompassing 39 structures and 45 acres, the Shelburne Museum south of Burlington offers a window into a huge range of Americana: folk art, textiles, toys, horse-drawn carriages — roughly ...
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 ...
After decades in storage because of "cultural insensitivity," Shelburne Museum's collection of Native American art will now have its own building.
In 1960, the Shelburne Museum commissioned the construction of the Beach Lodge and the Beach Gallery, named for William and Marie Beach, who were friends and hunting companions of Electra Havemeyer Webb, as well as Shelburne Museum patrons. Using timber forested at the Webb family's Adirondack "great camp", Nehasane, the museum designed the ...
Shelburne's Sawmill was built to house equipment from a South Royalton, Vermont, sawmill that was operated by Jeremiah Trescott and his partner Captain Stevens from the late 18th century. The Shepard family, descendants of Trescott, continued to operate the mill until the early 20th century and later donated its contents to the museum.