Portland Museum (other)
Portland Museum may refer to: * Portland Museum (Louisville), Louisville, Kentucky, USA * Portland Museum, Dorset, England (on the Isle of Portland) * Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA * Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA * Portland Children's Museum, Oregon, USA * Portland Gallery, London, England * 'The Portland Museum', collection of Margaret Cavendish-Harley, Duchess of Portland, now dissolved {{disambig ...
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Portland Museum (Louisville)
The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Portland Canal. The museum consists of three buildings: Beech Grove, a 19th-century Italianate mansion, the former Portland Bridge Baptist Mission Building, connected at Beech Grove's north side, and the AHOY House, a renovated Victorian property adjacent to the museum. The museum is also working to restore the 1812 Squire Earick House. History The museum was originally founded by seven teachers from the old Roosevelt Elementary School with an initial grant the National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection originally consisted of scrapbooks from various local families but has now since been expanded since then to include various artifacts, paintings and other memorabilia from local residents. Upon the school's ...
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